[Foundation-l] Rethinking brands

[Kat Walsh]

On 5/11/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/05/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think it is mistaken to think that an encyclopaedia that did not go
> > for GFDL could not survive... Look at the Stanford Encyclopaedia of
> > Philosophy. To the content producers the big thing with wikipedia is
> > that we are open access, not that we are GFDL. Well guess what,
> > Stanford is open access but completely copyright, not left.
>
>
> This is one reason I want to talk up free content as an important part
> of what we are.
>
>
> > > Has anyone approached Scholarpedia about free content licensing, by
> > > the way? They wouldn't need to change a single thing about the
> > > Scholarpedia model - just require new works to be free content.
>
>
> Erik would be the person for this, but he may be just a touch busy ...
> is there anyone who routinely works on this sort of thing? It's of
> almost-direct interest to WMF's interests to make free content
> *normal*.

Not routinely, but I *should*.

You can feel free to ask me this sort of question, also.

::starts looking at Scholarpedia::

-Kat


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