Toby wrote:
Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:
Copyright could be transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation. A disclaimer could be issued that states that the contributions always will be used in a free and open copyleft spirit.
This sounds like a very interesting idea!
Yes - for /anonymous contributions/ it does sound interesting. Logged-in users should retain copyright. Otherwise way too much power and control is being entrusted to the Foundation.
But making it easy for logged-in users to assign copyright if they want too should be fine.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Yes - for /anonymous contributions/ it does sound interesting. Logged-in users should retain copyright. Otherwise way too much power and control is being entrusted to the Foundation.
Maybe! But there are advantages for all of us to contribute our copyrights to the foundation. It's too late now, of course, but all of our licensing/relicensing questions would be a lot easier to deal with if the foundation owned all the copyrights.
The FSF requires an assignment of copyrights to them for any official FSF projects. This policy would not work for us -- it's too late, and would interfere with the wiki model. But if people voluntarily do it, I think it's a good idea.
--Jimbo
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