[WikiEN-l] Dead wikipedians and how to really make a project boring to death

[Ray Saintonge]

Sherool wrote:

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>Our current policy is that we want our content to be (completely) free  
>(wich include the ability to make derivative works) *especialy* in  
>comunity space (since all user contributions are supposed to be free  
>licensed). Granted this is more for "philosophical" reasons (we are a free  
>content project and all that) than practical legal ones, but it *is* the  
>current policy, in fact is is one of the 5 pillars of the project wich  
>states "(...)Do not submit copyright infringements **or works licensed in  
>a way incompatible with the GFDL**." (emphasis mine), and just for the  
>record ND licenses are not compatable with the GFDL.
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Personally, I prefer to be guided by that core policy as if it simply 
read, "Respect copyright."  Core policies should be simple and 
straigtforward, and adhering to them on that basis makes more common 
sense than trying to keep up to date with the whims of the professional 
policy writers.

Ec