My hunch is that public domain would be the easiest to convey, i.e. "government works should be exempt from copyright". It also has the advantage that you can point to U.S. law as an example. Wikimedia Israel pursued the free-license route, but of course someone threw in the non-commercial clause at the last minute, effectively undercutting the entire effort.
Ryan Kaldari Wikimedia Foundation
On 12/6/12 6:02 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote:
Hey Ryan,
no there was no talk about that, but it's top on my proposals list. I believe that such a thing simply has the chance to be accepted. The EU right now allows reuse with citations as a general rule, but there might be exceptions in each agency and since they don't use a specific license it can be very confusing to read through the copyright statements.
I am just not sure whether it would be better to propose PD or CC-by or just say "free-license".
Dimi
2012/12/7 Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org>
Was there any discussion of free-licensing government-created works? This seems like a worthy objective that doesn't adversely affect any commercial interests (which is the main roadblock to most copyright reform). Ryan Kaldari Wikimedia Foundation
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