[Foundation-l] Wikinews Licensing

Fri Dec 3 00:12:02 UTC 2004

Does anyone have any info on the discussions between jimbo, lessig and
rms re: cc-by-sa and gfdl compatibility. If it looks like it is going
to happen sometime in the not to distant future, then perhaps some of
this discussion won't be as important.

paz y amor,
[[User:The bellman]]
rjs

On 02 Dec 2004 22:10:00 +0100, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> During the brainstorming phase of the project, we ran a small straw poll
> on what the preferred license for Wikinews content would be:
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License_straw_poll
> 
> The content that is currently on the Demo wiki is in the public domain in
> order to facilitate the migration to any other license. In the straw poll,
> there is currently a small lead in favor of using dual licensing, but the
> opinions on what licenses to use differ: Some think we should dual-license
> as copyleft, others believe that we should allow non-copyleft uses for the
> sake of simplicity. The straw poll as such is not very conclusive.
> 
> If there are no objections, I will go ahead and hold a real vote on the
> issue as soon as demo.wikinews.org is moved to en.wikinews.org. However,
> please note that this is a rather far-reaching decision, so Board input
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erik
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