[Textbook-l] RE: Anonymous contributions

Tue Aug 5 15:42:34 UTC 2003

--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:
> Alex R. wrote:
> > I am not certain why there is a discussion of
> assigning copyright
> > to the Wikimedia Foundation. Of course anyone is
> free to make
> > such a contribution (though I doubt they will get
> a tax deduction
> > for it) but it is not necessary IMHO for Wikimedia
> to use materials
> > under the open license it already has, perhaps I
> do not understand
> > the question, but what specifically cannot be
> acheived with the
> > current open license that every Wikipedia
> contributor grants when
> > they make contributions to any Wikipedia space? 
> 
> I would say that the primary driving concern that we
> have is that
> there are starting to be materials published under
> other free and
> copyleft licenses (Creative Commons
> Attribution-Share Alike being most
> prominent) that are incompatible with the GNU FDL. 
> We'd love to be
> able to cut and paste willy-nilly between all free
> resources, but we
> can't, due to issues of license incompatibility.
> 
> http://www.wikitravel.org, or example, is CC ATT-SA,
> so we can't use
> their materials and they can't use ours, not without
> specific
> permission.  That's a real shame, and it's why I'm
> trying to get them
> to change their license while they are just starting
> to get off the
> ground.
> 
> --Jimbo

As a wikipedia author, why can't I relicence wikipedia
content under the CC ATT-SA?

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