On 3/26/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/26/07, Vee vee.be.me@gmail.com wrote:
From the forum:
Larry Sanger: "The conclusion you are trying to establish is that we cannot relicense our versions of Wikipedia articles with GFDL and CC. Why not? Does the GFDL explicitly forbid licensing works under another license in addition?"
Is he seriously suggesting that they can basically just license our works under whatever license they please as long as they also license it under the GFDL?
I can't believe they've gone 'live' without even sorting out basic copyright issues... CZ is a joke.
It's baffling that the founder of this project has only a cursory knowledge of copyright, less than an experienced wikipedia editor.
I found this baffling as well, and when I called Larry on his lack of knowledge of the GFDL he replied that he was the one who chose the GFDL for Wikipedia!
My initial thought was "oh, so you're the one we have to blame for that - explains a lot that the person who chose the license for Wikipedia had no clue what it meant". My actual reply was a bit nicer, I believe.
All of this said, I believe Larry had a conversation with some higher-ups in the free content movement, and some of his misconceptions were cleared up. But he still thinks it might be a good idea to license Citizendium created content under CC-BY-NC (or is it CC-BY-NC-SA, he doesn't seem to understand the difference).
Anthony