--- On Sat, 5/23/09, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
From: effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing resolution To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 4:00 AM 2009/5/23 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
2009/5/23 Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm:
I have been keeping an eye on what content got
imported on English
Wikibooks. If there has been anything imported
from offsite GFDL-only
sources I'm not aware of it. To be honest though,
that's not saying much
- we often have contributors bring us whole books
they wrote elsewhere -
but that's not a violation since they'd be the
copyright holder and can
relicense it however they want. I doubt there are
any similar cases
which do violate the terms, but I'd love some
help checking that.
What are licensing requirements for Wikibooks and
Wikisource? Did they
require GFDL or would any free license do, as is the
case for Commons?
depends on the language you're talking about :)
en.WS is like commons. I imagine most WS are. The editors are not the copyright holders 95% of the time there, so the license is not up to them. The background stuff on the site and any notes written by editors to introduce the texts, will be relicensed I suppose.
Birgitte SB