Re: [Foundation-l] Re-licensing - Wikimedia-l

22 Jan 2009

geni writes:

...
   (BTW, one
benefit of the licensing proposal is that it will be easier
 for Wikipedia and Citizendium to cross-fertilize each other.) 
 Nope. The "to clarify that attribution via reference to page histories
 is acceptable if there are more than five authors." bit will mean that
 it is imposable for wikipedia to take content from Citizendium without
 Citizendium adopting some very strange TOS specifically for the
 benefit of wikipedia which I would rather doubt it would do. Even that
 would not make it possible to copy content on Citizendium to wikipedia
 at the moment were the 5 names +URL proposal to be enacted. 
I don't regard the 5 names+URL implementation proposal to be written  
in stone. We might choose to modify it (by, e.g., increasing the  
number of names, or allowing editors who insist on being listed to be  
listed) based on feedback here and elsewhere. But the aspect of the  
license update has always been to maximize the extent to which  
Wikipedia can import and export CC-BY-SA-licensed content. Citizendium  
uses a CC-BY-SA 3.0 (unported) license already. Presumably Citizendium  
wants both to import and export CC-BY-SA content.  Any implementation  
by us that would require us to ask Citizendium for some kind of  
exemption -- which I agree would be unlikely -- is out of the question.

Note that I used the word "easier," which is a comparative, rather  
than "easy," which is an absolute.

--Mike