[Foundation-l] Only non-commercial re-use od Wiki content?

Fri May 6 09:28:23 UTC 2005

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> Because someone posting someone else's material cannot put it in the 
> public domain without the other person's permission, the click-through 
> agreement does not apply to such content. The question then becomes, 
> do we want to remove CC-BY or CC-BY-SA content posted by others? Given 
> the above, I'd say that it's reasonable to label content under CC-BY 
> as such and keep it. As for CC-BY-SA, GFDL, etc., the situation is not 
> quite as clear, but for the sake of interoperability, I'd be inclined 
> to be in favor of allowing such content when labeled. Wikinews stories 
> are relatively independent from one another.
>
> If this becomes established practice, it may make sense to amend the 
> copyright notice to say ".. is in the public domain where not 
> otherwise noted."

Once again, many legislations forbid that authors put their work in PD.

Why ? Because publishers would be very happy to force them to do so ! 
It's a protection for authors.

So, chosing PD as a basis is a major legal flaw that will give wikinews 
team a lot of headaches... and that will make me very busy on irc :)