It is probably not as well worked out as it should be, there likely should
be a template for imported pages and there are a few people point out issues
with this from time to time. I'm sure we have something on at least a couple
of policy pages saying they were imported from Wikipedia where the license
is GFDL.
Were someone to take issue with a page having been copied over that would be
the response, it would get a note on it that parts were GFDL. I suspect that
this issue has not come to prominence because the issue is not in the main
namespace but the project namespace.
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Marco Chiesa
Sent: 21 November 2007 13:28
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Citizendium License (Was: [EWW]Edit
WikipediaWeek)
Brian McNeil ha scritto:
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
What about importing policy pages from, say, Wikipedia? Does Wikinews
rewrite them from scratch or license them under GFDL? They're also
licensed under GFDL in the other projects. By the way, this was a real
discussion I had on IRC with some Wikinewsie, I'd say we shouldn't
bother too much but what if some author of a policy page on Wikipedia
complains that Wikinews violated his/her copyright by importing the
policy page and licensing it with something different from GFDL?
Cruccone
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