[Foundation-l] Copyright issues of wikimedia projects

Sat May 29 13:31:34 UTC 2004

 --- Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 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

There are still relatively few subscribers on this
list. Maybe it just needs more advertising on the
different wikis to encourage increased participation?

> ...the idea that all wikipedias would follow
> the english rules afterwards

I hope no one does have that idea! Even the Simple
English Wikipedia doesn't follow all the same rules as
the English one so I can't imagine other languages
would be expected to.

> 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.

Currently, all our projects are under the GFDL.
However, there is no reason future projects need to
be. The bylaws state that content will be distributed
"under a free documentation license such as the Free
Documentation License written by the Free Software
Foundation Inc. at http://www.fsf.org or
similar licensing scheme". These "similar licensing
schemes" need to be considered when starting up new
projects, as there are quite likely advantages to not
using the GFDL in some cases. See
http://www.wikitravel.org/en/article/Wikitravel:Why_Wikitravel_isn't_GFDL
for example.

Angela.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela

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