Another from Digital Universe, who are also producing Encyclopedia of Earth http://www.eofearth.org/ . Both are CC-by-sa.
- d.
On 06/03/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Another from Digital Universe, who are also producing Encyclopedia of Earth http://www.eofearth.org/ . Both are CC-by-sa.
Both exciting projects - a lot of copyleft information projects seem to be popping up at the moment. I'm looking forward to seeing more collaboration between copyleft projects and the benefits this will bring to the copyleft movement.
As an aside, how is Wikipedia/GFDL and CC-by-SA coming along? Is Wikipedia waiting on GFDL and CC-by-SA to work out compatibility?
On 3/6/08, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
As an aside, how is Wikipedia/GFDL and CC-by-SA coming along? Is Wikipedia waiting on GFDL and CC-by-SA to work out compatibility?
(CCing foundation-l, since folks there may be interested-)
Creative Commons is working actively with us on the "migration checklist": http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035677.html
They are internally discussing a draft statement of intent, and they've updated the CC frontpages to reference the Definition of Free Cultural Works. Plus, at this point there is a consensus between our two organizations that CC-BY-SA should function as a "strong copyleft" license, just not yet about the best way to achieve that.
On the FSF side, we're waiting for a version of the GFDL that has the migration language in it; hopefully this will be approved soon.
So, things are progressing. Given that there are multiple organizations involved, plus a commitment from us to only make the final step after consultation with the community, it's a complex process, but I'll hope we'll get there soon enough -- the incompatibility between CC-BY-SA and GFDL is a serious impediment for the free culture movement.