Wiki Discussion

The general approach on Wikipedia is to quote the sources of your information in a list at the bottom of the wiki page. I feel that approach could be wisely used on our wiki as well. Host the original document if possible, and add a link to it at the bottom of the wiki page, otherwise just add a link to the document on the owner's web host.

Information and knowledge is free to be shared on the web. Things like copyright can apply to phrases, formatting and presentation of information. So it wouldn't be prudent to copy and paste a whole document into a Wiki page, but it's fine to write your own page with the information held in that document. In the case of many short comments, such as with commented code or offset lists, it's hard to argue that the content of the comments can be copyrighted since a comment is just a short descriptive statement, and the formatting or presentation is simply the most efficient way to display a list of items.

Lenophis' wealth of sarcastic code comments could conceivably be considered a copyrighted work, though.

Edit: Speaking of the Wiki and code, I would really like to see a unified document of commented disassemblies where we can all pitch in and upload our own notes and benefit from each other's work. I have been using Assassin's C2 and the other disassemblies hosted at Slick Productions for the other banks, and even though those are amazing they are still woefully incomplete. Just a few days worth of exploring C3 have given me understanding and knowledge that wasn't directly hosted in that document. I suspect most of you other asm hackers are keeping your own versions of these documents, or at the very least are sitting on a wealth of notes that could be compiled into a grand unified document. If there were only a way to host something like that in a manner available for editing by anyone who wants to contribute...