[Foundation-l] New project licensing

Fri Aug 26 13:48:06 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 8/25/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>It's a genealogy site. The main page says:
>>"One of the main aims of the WikiTree Project is to provide a central
>>place on the Internet for kin information about all people we know
>>ever lived, automatically construct bloodline trees, and watch the
>>gradual emergence of global family forest of humanity."
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>Neat - we have a project proposal for that called 'Wikipeople'. 
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>see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipeople
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>A merger of the above proposal with Wikitree may eventually be in order. But an
>NC license is a no-starter for me. 
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>-- mav
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You might also want to look at 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects/inactive#Wikitree

The person who started the project originally wanted to do it as a 
Wikimedia project, but figured it would get much more success doing it 
on their own.  As far as licensing issues are concerned, there is a 
major thread on the topic at:

http://wikitree.org/index.php?title=WikiTree:Treehouse#Licensing

Including some comments by people who are critics of the Free Software 
Foundation and the GFDL in particular that should get some note.  I 
think the NC license was a mistake for that site, and it is a show 
stopper for me as well to do major contributions.  I do like, however, 
some of the MediaWiki software changes they have done to make it work 
better with geneological data.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning