--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Take the Wikinews project as an example. If successful, Wikinews will not only compete with CNN but also with AP and Reuters. That means that newspapers, magazines and websites may be interested in using our content instead of the expensive AP feed.
Would it not be much more important to make sure that Wikinews text can be used to *update* the corresponding Wikipedia articles? I've been very skeptical of the Wikinews idea due to the fact that it may reduce the rate at which Wikipedia is kept up to date. But placing Wikinews text under a license that is incompatible with Wikipedia is way over the top.
But the FDL with its long license text and complicated terms is not very practical for that.
Then let's work on reducing the FDL down to its essentials, call that the FCL, have the FSF adopt it and create a FDL 2.0 that allows direct compatibility with invariant-section-free FDL content and the FCL (the FCL would in turn be compatible with the CC by-sa).
There is even the question if we really want to force Wikinews users to copyleft their content, or if the public domain or an attribution license wouldn't be more practical in this instance.
Then that project would not be free content. Free content licenses protect the content from proprietary control and ensure a positive feedback loop which continually improves the content. Public domain and non-share-alike attribution licenses encourage mutually incompatible content forks where improvements that create derivative works cannot be re-incorporated back into the original - meaning there is no positive feeback loop.
Not to mention the fact that a non-FDL Wikinews article could not copy anything more than a fair use amount of background text from Wikipedia.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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