I've been meaning to reply in this thread to what Jussi said. (Sorry to not reply
inline; I'm on my Blackberry.)
Jussi said he's only seen comments on the licensing issue from the staff, and not from
the board. That may be true on this list, and it may be true for the specific piece of the
conversation that interests him; I'm not sure.
But I do want to point out two things.
1) At its January meeting, the board developed and unanimously voted to approve, a
statement in favour of migration. I think it was included in my January report that was
published here on foundation-l a few weeks ago. If I'm wrong and the full
statement's not in in that report, let me know and I'll send it to this list. (Or
Domas will, or another board member will.)
2) Also at the January board meeting, the board made an explicit request to staff and
board members, to publicly speak their minds on this issue. Some people probably would do
that anyway, but the board wanted to explicitly request it in this case. Why? Because
the license migration issue is pretty complex, and not everyone understands it well.
Basically, people fall into three camps. 1., Those who are already knowledgeable, and have
developed a position. 2., Those who aren't yet knowledgeable, but plan to read up in
advance of the vote, in order to develop a position. And 3., those who don't plan to
read up, and would rather trust others (board, staff, other volunteers) to do the research
on their behalf, and to advise them. The board is encouraging knowledgeable staff and
board members to express their opinions, as a service for those latter two groups.
That is why you're hearing a lot from Erik and Mike in the license migration threads.
Because they're knowledgeable about the issue, and the board has asked them to share
what they think :-)
Thanks,
Sue
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:41:58
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing transition: opposing points of view
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com
wrote:
The one loud voice here from the foundation *staff*
(staff
mind you, not the board of trustees) was espousing a very
novel interpretation of the CC-BY-SA that would have quite
spectacularly failed the "tentacles of evil" test of the Debian
guidelines.
A view which the Creative Commons lawyers themselves have endorsed.
It's fortunate that the motives of this move came out before the decision
was made, because nothing is stopping CC from changing the license later.
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