[Foundation-l] Copyright issues of wikimedia projects

Sat May 29 13:21:00 UTC 2004

--- Jean-Christophe Chazalette
<jean-christophe.chazalette at laposte.net> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Anthere" <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> To: <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:05 PM
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Copyright issues of
> wikimedia projects
> 
> 
> > I guess this is my last attempt to talk about
> > copyright issues in this place before deciding
> that
> >
> > - copyright discussions are obviously not
> interesting
> > *anyone* here, so are not worth trying to be
> discussed
> > since it raises absolutely no interest whatsoever
> >
> > - or that are not to be discussed in any other
> place
> > than on the english wikipedia list (see Tomos
> > discussion about changing our copyright license,
> > discussion that is occuring in another place, with
> the
> > idea that all wikipedias would follow the english
> > rules afterwards)
> >
> > So, I'll ask just another time to be certain.
> >
> > I must say that I am currently very disappointed
> by
> > lack of cooperation on the matter, because I do
> not
> > think my question is very difficult for those
> working
> > in the wikimedia projects other than wikipedia.
> >
> > We are setting the foundation status. The current
> > status are indicating that ALL OF OUR CONTENTS
> > (wikimedia projects) will be distributed under the
> > gfdl license.
> 
> It doesn't say that, ant :
> 
> "WF have contents which are not protected by the
> provisions regulating the
> the intellectual property, if such is the case
> freely distributed under the
> conditions of a free licence of documentation of the
> type of the Free
> Documentation License written by Free Software
> Foundation Inc, and in
> particular its European branch with
> http://www.fsfeurope.org/"
> 
> No classical copyright, and a possibility of *a*
> free licence *of the type*
> of GFDL. So that I can't see how it would be
> possibly wider. Did we read the
> same text ? :-)
> 
> villy

We read the same text but do not understand it the
same way. Does this allow contents under public
domain, does it allow contents over other types of
free licenses, does it allow contents under fair use
and so on ?

In short, does it limit our future abilities to
distribute content depending on future choices ?

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