[Foundation-l] Licensing Wikinews

Sat Aug 6 15:03:42 UTC 2005

>
> But, back to the topic. The 2.5 Creative Commons licenses allow to
> give the attribution NOT to every author of the article, but to the
> whole project - just check 4(b) of
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode (same applies to
> every other CC license).
>
> This allows us to finally license our content under the CC-Wiki
> (that's what we could call CC-By-SA 2.5) license - now the basic
> questions are:
>
> 1) Do we need to license it right now?

Well the sooner, the better...

> 2) Will we really choose CC-By-SA 2.5, or some other license, like
> GFDL or CC-By, for example?

Why don't you chose several licenses and don't you use dual-licensing?

> 3) What should we do about the Wikinews projects which already have a
> license choosed?

They can change it, but the old content will stay under the previous  
license. 