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

Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 03:02:56 UTC 2006


David Gerard wrote:
> 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?
> 

Ok, I'll post something to commons-l...

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