[Foundation-l] Citizendium License (Was: [EWW] Edit WikipediaWeek)

Wed Nov 21 12:20:25 UTC 2007

You dont need a special date - you might even have a multilicense situation
where the authors of each book select the public license under which they
would like to publish their book. Book A might be under GFDL, while book B
can be under CC-BY-SA, and book C could be under CC-NC. The main problem
arises when authors would like to reuse material which has been published by
someone else under another licnese.

2007/11/21, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>:
>
> The license change that was carried out to take Wikinews to CC-BY-2.5 was
> only possible because we aren't continually updating articles. Articles
> are
> published on Wikinews and become fixed shortly thereafter. In a case like
> that you can have a cut-off and changeover, which we did.
>
> Were you, for example, to want to go that way with Wikibooks you'd need to
> say, okay cut-off is <date-A>, and every book started before that gets a
> template added saying it was started before <date-A>, thus remains under
> the
> GFDL.
>
> I can't see any way to do that on Wikipedia where virtually every article
> is
> treated as a work in progress.
>
>
> Brian McNeil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Florence
> Devouard
> Sent: 21 November 2007 12:56
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Citizendium License (Was: [EWW] Edit
> WikipediaWeek)
>
> Andrew Gray wrote:
> > On 21/11/2007, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Whilst I see pretty well that getting the "ok" of all participants to a
> >> Wikipedia article might be asking for trouble, why would projects such
> >> as Wikibooks or Wikiversity not propose the dual license beginning
> today
> ?
> >>
> >> When a book is started today by a new group, or when a book had only a
> >> limited number of authors, this issue is not an issue. Why restricting
> >> to GFDL license only these projects ?
> >
> > It's been done, in fact - Wikinews is under some form of CC license. :-)
> >
>
> Nod. And I remember that some were complaining at that time that it
> would cause compatibility issues between wikinews and wikipedia.
> How much were both projects impacted by this situation ?
>
> Ant
>
>
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