Jimmy Wales

Obviously, the technology has moved very quickly in the last six months and looks poised to do so for some time to come.

So, first things first, I mean, part of our philosophy is the open licensing, the free licensing, the idea that, you know, this is what we're here for.

We are a volunteer community and we write this book.

encyclopedia.

We give it to the world to do what you like with.

You can modify it, redistribute it, redistribute modified versions, commercially, non-commercially.

This is the licensing.

So in that sense, of course, it's completely fine.

Now, we do worry a bit about attribution because it is a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license.

So attribution is important, not just because of our licensing model and things like that, but it's just...

Proper attribution is just good intellectual practice.

And that's a really hard, complicated question.

You know, if I were to write something about my visit here, I might say in a blog post, you know, I was in...

Austin, which is a city in Texas.

I'm not going to put a source for Austin as a city in Texas.

That's just general knowledge.

I learned it somewhere.

I can't tell you where.

So you don't have to cite and reference every single thing.

But if I actually did research and I used something very heavily, it's just morally proper to give your sources.