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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