[Foundation-l] Copyright issues of wikimedia projects

Sat May 29 14:24:39 UTC 2004

In my mind when I wrote it, it doesn't limit anything. Now my wording can be
improved if it's unclear or ambiguous.
Villy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthere" <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright issues of wikimedia projects

>
> --- 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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