--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)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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