[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: licensing issues, BSD doc license vs GNU

[Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales]

Edward Peschko wrote:
> Right.. I understand the distinction between the software's license
> and the content's license - but what I was wondering is does 
> the wikimedia *foundation* have a policy against accepting a 
> sister project's content with a different license than the Gnu FDL? 

I'm not sure what you mean here by "sister project".  That term is
something that we reserve for all of our internal projects.  There is
no process whereby an outside project can become formally recognized
by us in anyway, and I'm not particularly keen on doing so, just
because of the time and energy that would be required for a process of
scrutiny.

So far, all of our projects have been GNU FDL.  Wikinews is currently
using public domain, because there is an ongoing discussion and
learning process about what sorts of things we might need to do in
that case.

There are projects which are friends, but it is informal.  Wikitravel
for example, is not a wikimedia project, but we are friends with Evan.

--Jimbo

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