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My hunch is that public domain would be the easiest to convey, i.e.
"government works should be exempt from copyright". It also has the
advantage that you can point to U.S. law as an example. Wikimedia
Israel pursued the free-license route, but of course someone threw
in the non-commercial clause at the last minute, effectively
undercutting the entire effort.<br>
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Ryan Kaldari<br>
Wikimedia Foundation<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/6/12 6:02 PM, Dimitar Parvanov
Dimitrov wrote:<br>
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type="cite">Hey Ryan,<br>
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no there was no talk about that, but it's top on my proposals
list. I believe that such a thing simply has the chance to be
accepted. The EU right now allows reuse with citations as a
general rule, but there might be exceptions in each agency and
since they don't use a specific license it can be very confusing
to read through the copyright statements. <br>
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I am just not sure whether it would be better to propose PD or
CC-by or just say "free-license".<br>
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Dimi<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2012/12/7 Ryan Kaldari <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org"
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Was there any
discussion of free-licensing government-created works? This
seems like a worthy objective that doesn't adversely affect
any commercial interests (which is the main roadblock to
most copyright reform).<span class="HOEnZb"><font
color="#888888"><br>
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Ryan Kaldari<br>
Wikimedia Foundation</font></span><br>
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