[Licom-l] Document review - motivation for the license change

Fri Mar 20 07:17:44 UTC 2009

I've reworked the [[licensing update]] page a bit and have added a
motivation section per John's suggestion.

I've also split, as you may have noticed, the intro into a separate
page, so it can be easily transcluded from multiple places - I noticed
that the two intros (entry page and vote header) were getting out of
sync.

Thanks to AD for helping with the page layout :-)

There's a thread on foundation-l about the attribution terms and
CC-BY-SA. The final review from the Creative Commons GC was one of the
last pieces I needed. I'll wait for some further responses in that
thread until tomorrow, and then make some updates to the Q&A. I hope
then we're pretty much ready to go on the document front.

Please let me know if my input is needed anywhere, and I would
appreciate if you could all take another spin through the core pages.
:-)

Thanks,
Erik

2009/3/18 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> I've made some tweaks to the License update page after discussion with Mike:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Licensing_update&diff=1430474&oldid=1429332
>
> I've also taken a crack at revising the attribution section in the QA:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers&diff=prev&oldid=1430483
>
> I also concur with John that the primary entry page needs to sum up
> the case more clearly. I'll do some more document updates tomorrow and
> hope that we can quickly move towards finalizing the documents as per
> timeline.
>
> Erik
>
>
> 2009/3/18 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
>> 2009/3/18 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
>>> Based on people I've talked to, the most common objection seems to be
>>> that some people feel CC-BY-SA makes it too easy to reuse content
>>> without providing "adequate" attribution to authors.  In particular,
>>> people object to the idea of putting attribution and licensing
>>> information behind a URL since that may be inaccessible offline or
>>> subject to failure is webpages move or die.
>>
>> I want to note that this is not an inherent property of CC-BY-SA but
>> rather of the terms of conditions that we're proposing to use
>> alongside CC-BY-SA. (CC-BY-SA essentially allows the author to specify
>> their preferred method of attribution.) The attribution section of the
>> Q&A needs some love; I'll try to focus some attention to it as part of
>> a general document overhaul today.
>>
>> Erik
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