Mailing List Archive: Licensing update: Questions and Answers

Licensing update: Questions and Answers

Dec 16, 2008, 7:49 PM

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As per earlier comments, I've posted a first set of Questions and
Answers related to a possible licensing update from GFDL to CC-BY-SA
as the primary content license (with GFDL retained as a secondary
license) for Wikimedia Foundation projects, here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers

This is intended to be an iterative process, so please add questions
directly to the page, if you want. In the understanding that this Q&A
is meant to reflect the Wikimedia Foundation's position on these
issues, please feel free to help flesh out and clarify the answers.
Once the document has stabilized, I'll also send out a note that it's
ready for translation.

We'll follow up with a "proposal for a proposal", per the Q&A, by
January 15, 2009.
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: Licensing update: Questions and Answers [ In reply to ]

millosh at gmail

Dec 17, 2008, 3:43 AM

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This is intended to be an iterative process, so please add questions
> directly to the page, if you want.

Two questions related to non-WMF projects added.

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Re: Licensing update: Questions and Answers [ In reply to ]

rarohde at gmail

Dec 17, 2008, 5:29 AM

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I think you need a better introduction, i.e. something even more basic
than "Why move". The people on this list know what's going on, but
many Wikipedians and others pay negligible attention to GFDL issues.

I would suggest either adding an explanatory header, or starting with
an even more basic question like "What change is being proposed?".
You need something that addresses "What" is going on before getting
into the "Why" and "How".

-Robert Rohde

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> As per earlier comments, I've posted a first set of Questions and
> Answers related to a possible licensing update from GFDL to CC-BY-SA
> as the primary content license (with GFDL retained as a secondary
> license) for Wikimedia Foundation projects, here:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers
>
> This is intended to be an iterative process, so please add questions
> directly to the page, if you want. In the understanding that this Q&A
> is meant to reflect the Wikimedia Foundation's position on these
> issues, please feel free to help flesh out and clarify the answers.
> Once the document has stabilized, I'll also send out a note that it's
> ready for translation.
>
> We'll follow up with a "proposal for a proposal", per the Q&A, by
> January 15, 2009.
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
>
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