On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 05:04:43PM -0400, Sarah Stierch wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
Why? Because our mission is to make things free (as in speech). You may have heard about that ;-)
Here is WMF's mission statement:
"...under a free license..."
In general: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_speech
More specifically: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge
even more specifically: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Content
Past which point we start analysing the actual free licenses.
Just thought I'd remind people of the actual Foundation mission and vision, since technically Wikipedia itself does not have a mission statement (and perhaps someone will correct me if I'm wrong). Wikipedia however does have the purpose to be the world's largest free encyclopedia.
In general for the movement: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principles
Specific on en.wikipedia: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
sincerely, Kim Bruning
(Incidentally, it will be very interesting to see how CC and FSF react to filtering and/or prejudicial labelling of CC and/or GFDL content.)