[Foundation-l] Copyright issues of wikimedia projects

Sat May 29 18:53:17 UTC 2004

--- Angela <sloog77 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Currently, all our projects are under the GFDL.
> However, there is no reason future projects need to
> be. 

There is a tremendously important reason why all our text-based projects should
be under the same (or at least compatible) license: To alow inter-project
copying. It would be absurd to not be able to copy text back and forth between
Wikibooks and Wikipedia, for example. 

All our text should be under the same license (images can very easily be
regarded as aggregations, so we can be more lax with them, IMO). We chose the
FDL, so for the time being we are stuck with the FDL. In the future I would
like to see us migrate to a GNU FCL or at least to an improved FDL. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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