--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
If the incompatibility (in that direction) with CC-by-sa is fixed, then any incompatibility with CC-by will also be fixed; I don't see why you brought this up.
So that any modifications made to a CC-by-sa Wikinews article (or a FDL version) could all be re-incorporated back into Wikinews. Under the dual license scheme content could flow from Wikinews to any Wikimedia project via the FDL and from Wikinews to newspapers via the CC-by-sa, but not in the reverse direction. If the CC-by-sa and FDL were compatible, then that could happen and we could make things simple by publishing all Wikimedia content under the CC-by-sa.
How would that work if content is under the CC-by? The AP could get Wikinews content as soon as it is published and add improvements, thus making a proprietary derivative work right away. Then only the AP could grant distribution rights to the superior version.
That's a good point, although the AP is likely to be even more prejudiced against our material. That said, after a few years, then they would catch on. So you're right, this will be the same problem as we have today when Microsoft incorporates BSD code into Windows.
Thus, anybody proposing CC-by for WikiNews now has a harder case to make. ^_^
Good example, although I wasn't aware of that MS factoid.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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