On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:03:08 -0700, ScottL wrote:
Would something like this not require that the $100
Million worth of
copyrights in this case be assigned to WMF or some other foundation that
we setup rather than simply released under GFDL or a CC license?
That's exactly right.
Further, if we end up creating some sort of
copyright holding
foundation, might it also be worthwhile to make it easy for contributers
to assign their copyrights to WMF if they desire? This is I think only
interesting in a dual-licensing type of setup, or am I missing something?
For the Wikipedias it's too late to be useful. For commons, why not?
Roger