You dont need a special date - you might even have a multilicense situation
where the authors of each book select the public license under which they
would like to publish their book. Book A might be under GFDL, while book B
can be under CC-BY-SA, and book C could be under CC-NC. The main problem
arises when authors would like to reuse material which has been published by
someone else under another licnese.
2007/11/21, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>rg>:
The license change that was carried out to take Wikinews to CC-BY-2.5 was
only possible because we aren't continually updating articles. Articles
are
published on Wikinews and become fixed shortly thereafter. In a case like
that you can have a cut-off and changeover, which we did.
Were you, for example, to want to go that way with Wikibooks you'd need to
say, okay cut-off is <date-A>, and every book started before that gets a
template added saying it was started before <date-A>, thus remains under
the
GFDL.
I can't see any way to do that on Wikipedia where virtually every article
is
treated as a work in progress.
Brian McNeil
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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Florence
Devouard
Sent: 21 November 2007 12:56
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Citizendium License (Was: [EWW] Edit
WikipediaWeek)
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 21/11/2007, Florence Devouard
<Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Whilst I see pretty well that getting the "ok" of all participants to a
> Wikipedia article might be asking for trouble, why would projects such
> as Wikibooks or Wikiversity not propose the dual license beginning
today
?
When a book is started today by a new group, or when a book had only a
limited number of authors, this issue is not an issue. Why restricting
to GFDL license only these projects ?
It's been done, in fact - Wikinews is under some form of CC license. :-)
Nod. And I remember that some were complaining at that time that it
would cause compatibility issues between wikinews and wikipedia.
How much were both projects impacted by this situation ?
Ant
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