[Foundation-l] Offering Wikibooks content for sale

Wed Jul 5 03:53:06 UTC 2006

Robert Scott Horning wrote:

>Brad Patrick wrote:
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>>Robert, what would an efficient process look like to you, assuming the
>>licensing component is a requirement?
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>This needs to be a community-driven approach, where ordinary Wikimedia 
>users who contribute to various project have the opportunity to 
>participate and make this sort of content available.  There is also no 
>need for having a dozen independent "publishers" that all go off on 
>their own direction.  Certainly once it is apparent that you can make 
>some money off of publishing content like this, there will be a dozen 
>different companies offering Wikimedia content for sale, so your caution 
>is justified.  In this case, we are talking about publishing content as 
>a Wikibooks community rather than as a bunch of mavericks.
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We need to be a little cautious in how the community proceeds to 
proactively to publish its materials.

By all means I think it would be excellent for the community to publish 
its materials to create revenue for the Foundation by licensing the 
Logos and Trademarks.

However, "mavericks" should not be discouraged or encounter systematic 
hostility from any components of the "community" or the WMF in future 
participation because they choose to publish material in accordance with 
the FDL.

regards,
lazyquasar