--- On Sat, 5/23/09, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: effe iets anders
<effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing resolution
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 4:00 AM
2009/5/23 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
2009/5/23 Mike.lifeguard
<mikelifeguard(a)fastmail.fm>fm>:
> I have been keeping an eye on what content got
imported on English
> Wikibooks. If there has been anything
imported
from offsite GFDL-only
> sources I'm not aware of it. To be
honest though,
that's not saying much
> - we often have contributors bring us whole
books
they wrote elsewhere -
> but that's not a violation since
they'd be the
copyright holder and can
> relicense it however they want. I doubt
there are
any similar cases
> which do violate the terms, but I'd love
some
help checking that.
What are licensing requirements for Wikibooks and
Wikisource? Did they
require GFDL or would any free license do, as is
the
case for Commons?
depends on the language you're talking about :)
en.WS is like commons. I imagine most WS are. The editors are not the copyright holders
95% of the time there, so the license is not up to them. The background stuff on the site
and any notes written by editors to introduce the texts, will be relicensed I suppose.
Birgitte SB