[Foundation-l] GNU-FDL and Ultimate Wiktionary

Wed Jun 1 13:13:17 UTC 2005

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Jimmy Wales schrieb:
> I think that GNU FDL is perfectly fine for Ultimate Wiktionary and there
> is no need to change the license.  The license is perfectly compatible
> with the .DICT format, so there should be no problems at all.
> 
> Thinking about how to import data from wiktionary in the ultimate
> wiktionary may pose a few puzzles with respect to FDL compliance, but I
> don't see any significant problems.  The import script should keep track
> of who contributed to a chunk of data and take note of that fact.  The
> history may be a little more problematic, and I think we will want to
> get advice on exactly how to do it.
> 
> But changing the license to something else would require throwing away
> all existing work in wiktionary, which seems quite unwise to me.

I don't hang around wiktionary a lot (OK, not at all:-) but if there's
only a small group of people doing most of the work, maybe they could
agree on dual-licensing their work under CC-BY-SA-2.0 or the like. Then,
all articles exclusively edited by these people could be used for a
dual-licensed UW.

Magnus
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