I have an email addres, wp@davidgerard.co.uk, set up for en:wp press queries. Of course, it gets used as a sort of OTRS replacement.
One query I've gotten a bit lately is "may we reuse this text?" or "may we reuse this image?" I email back explaining how the original contributor owns it and there will be a license attached, which may be easy or hard to keep to the terms of.
There is [[Commons:Licensing]], which seems mainly to be for contributors. But is there a page on Commons that is a simple guide to people wanting to reuse content? If not, should there be? Is there a page anywhere else that serves this purpose?
(Let's assume for the moment I have little interest in diving headfirst into Commons politics.)
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
I have an email addres, wp@davidgerard.co.uk, set up for en:wp press queries. Of course, it gets used as a sort of OTRS replacement.
One query I've gotten a bit lately is "may we reuse this text?" or "may we reuse this image?" I email back explaining how the original contributor owns it and there will be a license attached, which may be easy or hard to keep to the terms of.
There is [[Commons:Licensing]], which seems mainly to be for contributors. But is there a page on Commons that is a simple guide to people wanting to reuse content? If not, should there be? Is there a page anywhere else that serves this purpose?
Well, there's the OTRS templates:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/en#Permission_for_image http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/en#Permission_for_text
(No, they're not live)
(Let's assume for the moment I have little interest in diving headfirst into Commons politics.)
Politics is silly.
David Gerard wrote:
There is [[Commons:Licensing]], which seems mainly to be for contributors. But is there a page on Commons that is a simple guide to people wanting to reuse content? If not, should there be? Is there a page anywhere else that serves this purpose?
There isn't, as far as I know. There should be, though we should make clear that we're providing informal/nonlegal guidelines that we think (but don't guarantee) explain the requirements for reusers, because we don't really have the authority to provide official interpretations of licenses we didn't write.
Unofficial guidelines for the major licenses we use would be useful, though---often the problem isn't so much the legal details, as the potential reuser not even knowing in broad terms what the reuse requirements are (for example, which licenses are copyleft ones and which aren't?).
-Mark
On 02/09/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
There isn't, as far as I know. There should be, though we should make clear that we're providing informal/nonlegal guidelines that we think (but don't guarantee) explain the requirements for reusers, because we don't really have the authority to provide official interpretations of licenses we didn't write. Unofficial guidelines for the major licenses we use would be useful, though---often the problem isn't so much the legal details, as the potential reuser not even knowing in broad terms what the reuse requirements are (for example, which licenses are copyleft ones and which aren't?).
OK. I've just started:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia
Could all concerned please dive upon it and fill in the gaps?
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
On 02/09/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
There isn't, as far as I know. There should be, though we should make clear that we're providing informal/nonlegal guidelines that we think (but don't guarantee) explain the requirements for reusers, because we don't really have the authority to provide official interpretations of licenses we didn't write. Unofficial guidelines for the major licenses we use would be useful, though---often the problem isn't so much the legal details, as the potential reuser not even knowing in broad terms what the reuse requirements are (for example, which licenses are copyleft ones and which aren't?).
OK. I've just started:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia
Could all concerned please dive upon it and fill in the gaps?
Ok, I'll post something to commons-l...
On 03/09/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia
Ok, I'll post something to commons-l...
Huh, I thought I was on commons-l and wasn't. Subscribed.
- d.
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