All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII

[GethN7]

Speaking of TVT, even though the plagiarism issue was handled, and Fighteer continues to be a reasonable man, I love how there some people who think ATT is illegal plagiarism, not a legal fork, simply because they refuse to do proper research on copyright

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?pa...3&type=att

This comment in particular makes me facepalm:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?pa...ent-269531


I provided some elucidation to the issue here, and as Fighteer brought up, the issue is "self-plagairism", or basically using things between sitees with different copyright licenses without bothering to clear up it's original point of origin and reuse on a different site by the same author with a different license.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?di...omment-349

For legal reasons, we may want to make clearer, if we haven't already, how to avoid this, in our own documentation, and provide for the people who foolishly still think we are plagiarists ourselves all the legal reasons we are not spelled out so even someone who doesn't know big words can understand it.