Commons is the most compelling project to be compatible with. If you
actually look into the details of CC-BY-SA it is the license Wikinews would
probably have chosen were it available at the time. CC-BY-SA makes Wikipedia
content vastly more useful to a lot of places and clears up significant
potential fair use issues quoting content on non-CC-BY-SA sites.
Remember, Wikipedia ended up GFDL as a historical accident. They've worked
from that - including strongarming 'The Bearded One' - into writing a
get-out-of-GFDL clause. CC-BY-SA is *currently* the best choice for the WMF
mission. I don't think it was available when Wikinews went from PD to CC-BY.
Brian.
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[mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jason Safoutin
Sent: 30 May 2009 16:26
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Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news'
Why though? Then what purpose does it serve to have changed WP to
CC-BY-SA if it still prevents copying from WP to WN or the likes? In
that sense, it really makes no logical sense. I thought the goal was to
make the WP license more compatible with other project licenses? If so
then changing it to CC-BY-SA isn't doing that at all (aside from commons).
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Jason Safoutin
Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator
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Paul Williams wrote:
2009/5/30 Jason Safoutin
<jason.safoutin(a)wikinewsie.org
<mailto:jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org>>
Why could we not copy from WP? SA is just the basic same as regular CC
BY. If copying from WP will still not be allowed, then why did they go
through the trouble to even change the license if its still not
compatible with other projects?
CC-BY is not the same as CC-BY-SA - we (Wikinews) must publish our
content under CC-BY-SA if we wish to copy from WP.
Regards,
Paul Williams
paul(a)skenmy.com <mailto:paul@skenmy.com>
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