[Wikipedia-l] [Foundation-l] contents under education/information licenses

Tue Nov 21 19:40:53 UTC 2006

David Gerard a écrit :
> So the problem here is that the euroskeptic opponent thinks this is
> ESA's problem, and that ESA feels it has to go along with this idea.
> That is: the problem you're describing is local politics rather than
> that open content licences are problematic.
>
> What ill effects have befallen NASA from its works being public
> domain? I still eagerly await your and ESA's answers to this question.
NASA and ESA operate in different political and legal climates. That's a 
fact of life. Telling people that in order to do business with you 
they'd have to transform their legal and institutional framework, 
straight up front, is a sure road to disaster.

Bah. I'm proposing them CC-BY-SA as a solution. Though the license is 
deemed "free", the -SA clause probably precludes most uses in 
advertisement. (If it's not sufficient, I'll propose GFDL, which we 
consider "free" even though it de facto prohibits many uses, e.g. 
postcards.)