[Wikinews-l] Licensing Wikinews

Wed Aug 3 17:57:53 UTC 2005

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 On 8/3/05, Amgine <amgine at saewyc.net> wrote: 
> 
> As far as I am aware, it is not possible for any of the Wikinews
> editions to choose a license. The WMF Board is the only group which can
> choose a license, and what I understood was they would like the project
> as a whole to select a license which is most compatible with the goals
> of the entire project, not any single edition.
> 
> As to the suggested license, CC-by-sa, the primary argument against that
> license in previous versions was the requirement for attribution to all
> contributors by downstream content reusers. If version 2.5 allows
> attribution to the originating project then I see no reason not to adopt
> that license.
> 
> So to answer your questions:
> 
> > 1) Do we need to license it right now?
> 
> Yes, the longer we wait the more content there is to relicense, and the
> larger the likelihood of argument and dispute over relicensing.
> 
> > 2) Will we really choose CC-By-SA 2.5, or some other license, like
> GFDL or CC-By, for example?
> 
> As far as I am concerned, the CC-by-sa 2.5 appears to answer all the
> previously-raised concerns and has the added benefit of an active
> community developing and maintaining the licensure.
> 
> > 3) What should we do about the Wikinews projects which already have a
> license choosed?
> 
> It should be gently pointed out to them that it is not something they
> can actually do, and ask them to bring their input to this discussion?
> I'm not sure how to bring it up without causing some level of conflict,
> but they might be asked how they decided they *could* change the license
> without asking the Foundation.
> 
> Amgine
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