[Foundation-l] Commons content reuse how-to?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Sep 2 15:31:37 UTC 2006


On 02/09/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:

> There isn't, as far as I know.  There should be, though we should make
> clear that we're providing informal/nonlegal guidelines that we think
> (but don't guarantee) explain the requirements for reusers, because we
> don't really have the authority to provide official interpretations of
> licenses we didn't write.
> Unofficial guidelines for the major licenses we use would be useful,
> though---often the problem isn't so much the legal details, as the
> potential reuser not even knowing in broad terms what the reuse
> requirements are (for example, which licenses are copyleft ones and
> which aren't?).


OK. I've just started:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia

Could all concerned please dive upon it and fill in the gaps?


- d.



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