Right.. I understand the distinction between the software's license and the content's license - but what I was wondering is does the wikimedia *foundation* have a policy against accepting a sister project's content with a different license than the Gnu FDL? I sincerely believe that the FreeBSD is a better fit for my wiki than the GnuFDL - especially because it can be sublicensed - but hesitate to do so if it would jeapordize having the wiki accepted as a sister project.. Anyways, I'm moving this over to foundation-l, now that I look at it, it seems a better fit there.. Ed

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:19:05PM +0200, NSK wrote: well, its tempting, but I'm not too thrilled with the idea of ceding both policies and content, as switching to a different platform (drupal vs mediawiki). In fact, that's one of the primary goals of my project; to see exactly *what* licensing scheme works well with scientific development. wikiresearch has hosting space right now as well as complete freedom in development, so I'm not sure what wikinerds would offer. I'm really more interested in expanding mediawiki as it stands to handle scientific content with the aim of merging the results into the wiki foundation. It seems to be the logical choice - established, multi-linugal, well-traveled. And enhancing mediawiki to handle scientific content bolsters the foundation's reputation, and broadens its scope, as well as adds potential for features to be added to wikipedia proper. And being a separate, small project gives wikiresearch loads of room for experimentation. Basically - we can find out what works and what doesn't; and I've got a couple of professor friends who are willing to act as guinea-pigs, so we can work out the kinks in making mediawiki useful for scientific publishing.. Anyways, thanks for the offer. I'll keep it open and we'll see how the experiment goes.. Ed