--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I guess this is my last attempt to talk about copyright issues in this place before deciding that
- copyright discussions are obviously not
interesting *anyone* here
There are still relatively few subscribers on this list. Maybe it just needs more advertising on the different wikis to encourage increased participation?
...the idea that all wikipedias would follow the english rules afterwards
I hope no one does have that idea! Even the Simple English Wikipedia doesn't follow all the same rules as the English one so I can't imagine other languages would be expected to.
We are setting the foundation status. The current status are indicating that ALL OF OUR CONTENTS (wikimedia projects) will be distributed under the gfdl license.
Currently, all our projects are under the GFDL. However, there is no reason future projects need to be. The bylaws state that content will be distributed "under a free documentation license such as the Free Documentation License written by the Free Software Foundation Inc. at http://www.fsf.org or similar licensing scheme". These "similar licensing schemes" need to be considered when starting up new projects, as there are quite likely advantages to not using the GFDL in some cases. See http://www.wikitravel.org/en/article/Wikitravel:Why_Wikitravel_isn%27t_GFDL for example.
Angela. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela
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