[Wikinews-l] [Ticket#2006081710006179] Getting permission to use news of wikinews.org

Mon Aug 21 14:56:11 UTC 2006

Hello Maria Shinkevich!

Your message was forwarded to the Wikinews mailing list, and we've  
been discussing it, but you might not have been CC'd on all the  
replies, so allow me to make a single over-view response.

SonicR noted there is no limitation to broadcasting our news, which  
is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license version  
2.5 (a description of Creative Commons licenses may be found on the  
English Wikipedia at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Creative_Commons_License>, the actual licensure synopsis and legal  
text may be found at <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/>

He also noted there are several RSS-feeds for different languages of  
Wikinews:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews (English)
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/wikinews-rss/rss-de.php (German)
http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=009340 (Spanish)
http://tools.wikimedia.pl/~derbeth/wikinews.xml (Polish)

Michael Danko also talked about how the CC-by license allows re-use  
of our content, and pointed out the following statement on the  
English Wikinews home page: "All content is released under a free  
license. By making our content perpetually available for free  
redistribution and use, we hope to contribute to a global digital  
commons."

I can serve as a volunteer contact person for your organization. I  
will forward more contact information shortly, but feel free to e- 
mail me immediately. I can put you in touch with technical people as  
necessary.

Amgine
aka Wayne Saewyc

On 19-Aug-06, at 11:47 PM, Wikimedia Foundation wrote:

> Dear Maria Shinkevich,
>
> Thank you for your mail.
>
> I invite you to discuss this issue with wikinewsies. The following  
> mailing
> list can help you: wikinews-l at wikimedia.org
>
> Best regards
>
> Florence Devouard
>
> "Maria Shinkevich" <mariashine at redtram.com> écrit:
>
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>>
>>
>> We represent News Search Engine RedTram (http://www.redtram.com/)  
>> and would
>> like to add wikinews.org news leads to our news database in different
>> languages. Is it possible for us to get the right to broadcast  
>> your news via
>> our news search engine with links to wikinews.org? Maybe it's  
>> possible that
>> you provide us with RSS-feeds?
>>
>>
>>
>> Could you please give us contact information of the person with  
>> whom we can
>> discuss the question described above and also the person in charge of
>> technical issues?
>>
>>
>>
>> Project info: RedTram has more than 320 000 visitors daily.  
>> RedTram is a
>> multi-language site that delivers news in English, French, German,  
>> Spanish,
>> Italian, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian. RedTram contains more then  
>> 1300
>> English news sources.
>>
>>
>>
>> We hope to hear from you soon.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Maria Shinkevich
>>
>> RedTram Project Laguage Versions Coordinator
>>
>> E-mail: mariashine --at-- redtram.com
>>
>> MSN: mounne at rambler.ru
>>
>> URL: www.redtram.com <http://www.redtram.com/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Florence Devouard
>
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