[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia meeting today

Sat Aug 27 22:09:55 UTC 2005

On 27/08/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is the reason why this meeting is open to everyone.
> I tend to think the idea is not even to make the decision of which
> license to choose during the meeting, because I see no reason why a
> selection of people would make such a decision over all editors. But
> rather to find a solution to make it so that such a decision is finally
> taken.
> 
> Recently, on the french wikinews, someone even try to change the charter
> to indicate that all content on wikinews was public domain and its
> content forbidden to use for commercial reasons (?!?)
> 
> I think it is HIGH time that things are settled down.

Well, on en.wikin most people seem to be quite happy with PD. Every so
often says "you can't really use PD" but when pressed they never
actually explain that :-).

Dan