On 1/14/07, luke brandt shojokid@gmail.com wrote:
geni wrote:
On 1/14/07, luke brandt shojokid@gmail.com wrote:
My reply is that I asked (on 8 November 2006) whether the Wikimedia Foundation has a preferred license for its projects. The answer then appeared to be 'no.'
Not exactly:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-May/023760.html
Yes, that posting by Jimmy Wales is relevant to NC images and By Permission images, but I'm sure that people like Eric and Angela and Gerard were familiar with it when they replied, even though it was posted 18 months previously.
Which was when for the most part the issue was settled.
It is still true that the answer to my question appeared to be 'no;' that is: there is no preferred license by the Wikimedia Foundation. There are a plethora of licenses to choose from, or we could formulate a custom one.
Wikinews suggested that one. I think the response was please no. At least partly because of the shear number of existing free lisences.
Now the current meeting could maybe choose a preferred license if it wanted.....
That would be politicaly unwise since we would either upset the FSF or CC. The case of lisences we can use is already defined.
I said we should think things through for ourselves - surely that's right to do. We are in a unique situation.
Not really. Lots of people have delt with free lisence issues and we can't afford many lawyers
Right - I would prefer people with deep knowledge on those topics as well, but there you go...However I wasn't only referring to copyright in that comment. I was referring to a whole gamut of issues, thinking particularly about China and how things are developing there.
I think we largely ignore china.
Be more specific, please.
The actions rather than the theory of WP:OFFICE. Certian actions by people acting for the foundation. I'm not going to dig up the details of my past clashes with the foundation.
Could you perhaps be more specific please...why does NC fail in such an objective.
Companies have quite a good record of spreading knowlage when they can make money off it. The record of doing so when they cannot is rather less good.
.this link may be of use:
Red hat makes a fair amount of money. Acording to that article that is imposible. With errors of that scale I don't think further examination is likely to reveal useful results.