[Wikinews-l] Licensing Wikinews

Thu Aug 4 02:48:27 UTC 2005

Uh - you can't "re-license" public domain property. Once it's public domain
- it's always public domain.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikinews-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org 
> [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dariusz Siedlecki
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:17 PM
> To: Wikinews mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Licensing Wikinews
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, but Jimbo wanted to hear everyone's opinion on this 
> topic. As to the questions I raised, I too think that 
> CC-By-SA will be the best, and we need to relicense the content ASAP.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Dariusz "Datrio" Siedlecki 
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