"After the consultation with Wikimedia lawyers I can inform you that
it is acceptable to import content to our Wiki under the licence
disallowing its commercial re-use," wrote the admin of one of the
Wikimedia projects and entered into a co-operation with a certain
external service (with the aim of importing their content to the Wiki
under such non-commmercial re-use only licence; although the service
agreed to relicence their content as PD, the admin suggested CC BY-NC).
My personal opinion is that this goes against the policy of Wikimedia
and violates the principles crucial to a lot of people who contribute
to the Wikis. I don't mention names here as I believe it is a
misunderstanding and that the person in question acts in good faith.
However, I'd like to hear the Board's official opinion: are there
circumstances under which the above licence is acceptable for
Wikimedia Wikis (texts)? Is it even debatable?
Thank you,
[[m:user:tsca]]
it is acceptable to import content to our Wiki under the licence
disallowing its commercial re-use," wrote the admin of one of the
Wikimedia projects and entered into a co-operation with a certain
external service (with the aim of importing their content to the Wiki
under such non-commmercial re-use only licence; although the service
agreed to relicence their content as PD, the admin suggested CC BY-NC).
My personal opinion is that this goes against the policy of Wikimedia
and violates the principles crucial to a lot of people who contribute
to the Wikis. I don't mention names here as I believe it is a
misunderstanding and that the person in question acts in good faith.
However, I'd like to hear the Board's official opinion: are there
circumstances under which the above licence is acceptable for
Wikimedia Wikis (texts)? Is it even debatable?
Thank you,
[[m:user:tsca]]