Robin Shannon wrote:
Well i have contributed 2 articles to wikinews so far, and one of them i lifted (more or less) straight from wikipedia (from an article that was written about 5 minutes before i sat down to write). I can think that there would be plenty of times when lifting a paragraph or so from wikipedia would be useful in wikinews. Hence while i would like it to be PD, i think that GFDL (provided that becomes CC-BY-SA complient sometime) would be the most practical.
Yesterday, ddp, a medium sized news agency copied [[de:Misshandlung]] from wikipedia 1:1 and sent it over their channel. They didn't even try to stick to the GNU FDL and it took me some time to explain copyright to them.
I will not participate in a PD wikinews that does not ensure that free text remains free. CC-BY-SA does not block newspapers from using the content and because of the <buzzword>synergy</buzzword> hopes regarding wikipedia, i suggest a dual licensing of GFDL and CC-BY-SA (keeping in mind that these two should merge some day...)
Mathias