[Textbook-l] RE: Anonymous contributions

Tue Aug 5 17:13:04 UTC 2003

It is ironic that these various licenses are incompatible with each
other, maybe a simpler solution would be to have a very straightforward
license like has been used commonly in areas where non-exclusive
licensing is a commercial reality and just make sure that atribution
is preserved (sort of like the moral rights approach of European
copyright) isn't that what we all really want when we talk about
open content?
Alex756

 "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:

> 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