[Foundation-l] The Wikinews Licensure Poll is closed

Fri Sep 23 13:28:21 UTC 2005

As for myself, I will read the various feedback from opposers to WNL 0.2 
and modify it to answer their remarks.

I guess Amgine will help me on this.

Dariusz Siedlecki a écrit :
> After two weeks of voting, the Wikinews community has chosen which
> license they'd like for their project. I won't post the full results
> here, but you can view them on Meta -
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Licensure_Poll
> 
> Now... The winner is CC-By 2.5, with the attribution to the Wiki. The
> license is one-way-compatible with the GFDL. It gained 27 votes of
> support from Wikinewsies with only four votes against.
> 
> It needs to be mentioned, that the GFDL gained 11 opposing votes from
> Wikinewsies, with only one vote of support. But the combination of
> GFDL and CC-By 2.5 gained 8 votes of support, with only one opposing
> vote.
> 
> The Wikinews License 0.2, based on the BSD license, gained 14 votes of
> support, but 8 people were against it.
> 
> Not many people were interested in the other licenses, so... I think
> that's it. The Wikinews community choosed CC-By 2.5 for the Wikinews
> project. Now it's up to the Board to decide on the project license.
> So... What does everyone say?
> 