[Foundation-l] wikinews and other stuff

Fri Oct 15 19:03:58 UTC 2004

I strongly support the Wikimedia License idea. GDFL is not that appropriate
to Wikis for plenty of reasons. I'll tell them when there'll be a real issue
here :) Suffice it to say that considering what wiki actually is,
technically, and what kind of ambition Wfoundation actually has, a
tailor-made license would be just *better*. Of course, I would join any
thinktank about this topic and even would accept to draft the main lines -
with the help of a decent French-English translator ... of course.
villy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andre Engels" <andreengels at gmail.com>
To: "Robin Shannon" <robin.shannon at gmail.com>; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing
List" <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] wikinews and other stuff

> > firstly, re: wikinews, it will be released under GFDL yes? which means
> > that if CNN or BBC or ABC or NZBC or the guardian or even slashdot or
> > a blog wanted to reproduce our wikinews article, then they would have
> > to also reproduce the entire GFDL license (or did i read the GDFL
> > incorrectly), which may well be twice as long as the news article. Has
> > anyone else thought of this problem and come up with any solutions.
> > Other than this my position on wikinews is not active support, but
> > certainly close interest.
>
> One solution would be what Tim Starling proposed on WikiCommons: We
> get our own Wikimedia license, which specifies that material under the
> Wikimedia license may also be distributed under the GNU/FDL license
> (as well as CC-BY-SA and perhaps others). The Wikimedia license then
> could specify that mentioning "This material may be published in
> changed or unchanged state under the Wikimedia license" would be
> enough.
>
> Andre Engels
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