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Google is selling ads against free content created in Wikipedia, and Wikipedia sees none of that. That isn't fair to Wikipedia and it would be catastrophic for many for-profit websites.



Can't Wikipedia just change its terms of service or licensing if it thinks this is a problem?

You're either free for all, or not.


How would changing there terms of service prevent Google from doing this? If that worked, don't you think Yelp would do that?




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