Danny,
Deputy CIO of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has
given us permission to
use any and all of the material created and licensed by that Museum
according
to the terms of our license. This includes images, video, video transcripts,
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All they are asking for in
return in attribution. Essentially, although this was not said in so many
words,
they are releasing all of their in-hourse material according to the terms of
the GNU-FDL. Larry was especially excited by the prospect of our people
Is this some kind of Wikipedia-only licensing? If it is, are we making an
exception to our rules on reusability? If not, do they really understand what
they're agreeing to? How are they going to react when some Neo-Nazi website
makes unpleasant derivative works of their material? I'm sure that you and
Brad know what's involved here, and this seems to be a fantastic opportunity
for us; I suppose that I'm just asking for reassurance about what seems to be a
remarkable change in either our policy or theirs.
Jkelly