Dear folks,
I'm going to try to develop an FAQ regarding the latest developments on the GFDL-Creative Commons harmonization project. What I'd like from you is suggestions about what kinds of questions need to be answered for people who are planning to vote on the license-migration issue. (Then I'll try to craft answers to them -- with the help of other folks of course.) I'm not interested only in the questions that you may feel haven't been answered yet, but also in questions that you do have answers to, but think other people will be curious about as well.
Please feel free to send responses to me via this list (your submitted questions may inspire other people to write some) or (if you like) to me via private e-mail.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
--Mike Godwin General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
2008/11/5 Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org:
Dear folks,
I'm going to try to develop an FAQ regarding the latest developments on the GFDL-Creative Commons harmonization project. What I'd like from you is suggestions about what kinds of questions need to be answered for people who are planning to vote on the license-migration issue. (Then I'll try to craft answers to them -- with the help of other folks of course.) I'm not interested only in the questions that you may feel haven't been answered yet, but also in questions that you do have answers to, but think other people will be curious about as well.
Please feel free to send responses to me via this list (your submitted questions may inspire other people to write some) or (if you like) to me via private e-mail.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
--Mike Godwin General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
==questions other people want to know the answer to==
1)Is this part of a plot against the FSF by Creative Common zealots (or words to that effect probably want to rephrase that one. Worth mentioning that this is probably more WMF driven than CC)?
2)Does this weaken the guarantees on the GPL that the FSF will not compromise it's principles?
3)What about new material added to wikipedia after nov 1st (yes I know that answer but appears to be a common mistake)?
4)why did wikipedia go for GFDL in the first place?
==probably going to come up==
5)Will the average user notice any difference?
6)Will editors have to do anything different?
7)aside from the vote will editors have to do anything to make the changeover happen?
==What I want to know==
8)Has there been any contact between Art Libre and CC over moveing towards a final "grand unified free license"?
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:17 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2008/11/5 Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org:
I'm going to try to develop an FAQ regarding the latest developments on the GFDL-Creative Commons harmonization project. What I'd like
8)Has there been any contact between Art Libre and CC over moveing towards a final "grand unified free license"?
Is it possible to add GFDL there [1] (at least related to CC-BY-SA x.x Unported; and at least in one way)?
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear folks,
I'm going to try to develop an FAQ regarding the latest developments on the GFDL-Creative Commons harmonization project. What I'd like from you is suggestions about what kinds of questions need to be answered for people who are planning to vote on the license-migration issue. (Then I'll try to craft answers to them -- with the help of other folks of course.) I'm not interested only in the questions that you may feel haven't been answered yet, but also in questions that you do have answers to, but think other people will be curious about as well.
Please feel free to send responses to me via this list (your submitted questions may inspire other people to write some) or (if you like) to me via private e-mail.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
--Mike Godwin General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
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Under which jurisdictions (where major contributions come from) is the "...and later clause" not valid and what are the consequences of that? (Germany, Norway, iirc?)
Bryan
Mike Godwin wrote:
Dear folks,
I'm going to try to develop an FAQ regarding the latest developments on the GFDL-Creative Commons harmonization project.
Mike that is a terrific idea: thank you. Reading the other thread I was sympathizing with Mathieu Stumpf's desire to get some basic questions answered. This will help a little; thanks for doing it.
What I'd like
from you is suggestions about what kinds of questions need to be answered for people who are planning to vote on the license-migration issue. (Then I'll try to craft answers to them -- with the help of other folks of course.) I'm not interested only in the questions that you may feel haven't been answered yet, but also in questions that you do have answers to, but think other people will be curious about as well.
Please feel free to send responses to me via this list (your submitted questions may inspire other people to write some) or (if you like) to me via private e-mail.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
--Mike Godwin General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
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Great idea, here are some questions in no particular order (that I may or may not know the answer to already):
* What would we gain from the switchover? * What happens if we change our minds later? * What if everyone else wants to switchover but I want to keep my contributions GFDL only? * What are the key differences between GFDL and CC-BY-SA?
That's it for now, I'll let you know if I think of any more.
*Will WMF actually move contents to CC-BY-SA only / CC-BY-SA & GFDL? What is already established? What is going to be decided and how?
Nemo
"So what's wrong with the GFDL?"
That's gotta be the first question, and you should be able to manage five paragraphs without pausing.
- d.
* Who/what motivated this switch project ? * Why the CC-by-sa ? * Are MWF and CC Corporation merging ?
For fun : * Under which license is this FAQ ?
Also, I can help write answer to some question, is there a wiki page where we could work together on this FAQ ?
There's only really one question I have:
*How can I opt out of the relicensing?
Anything else would be rhetorical. I am convinced that this is a horrible idea.
Mike,
Aside from the general "Why?" and "How will this affect <insert usergroup of Wikipedia here, e.g. editors/reusers/...>?", the foremost question in my mind is: Is the Wikimedia Foundation legally allowed to relicense the content created by its editors and other people without their explicit consent?
As I understand it (having started paying attention to this part way through the process), the answer is yes, as all editors (including authors of content imported into Wikipedia) agreed to the GFDL, which includes a clause saying that any version of the GFDL can be used, and GFDL v1.3 lets people relicense the content under CC licenses so long as that content was written prior to 2 November 2008. If that is correct (if not please correct me), then other questions would be: "Why CC-BY-SA?", "What about content written after 2 November 2008?", "Who is attribution given to under the BY part of CC-BY-SA?" and "Which version of CC-BY-SA will be chosen, and can this be modified/ updated later?"
Thanks, Mike Peel
On 5 Nov 2008, at 22:54, Mike Godwin wrote:
Dear folks,
I'm going to try to develop an FAQ regarding the latest developments on the GFDL-Creative Commons harmonization project. What I'd like from you is suggestions about what kinds of questions need to be answered for people who are planning to vote on the license-migration issue. (Then I'll try to craft answers to them -- with the help of other folks of course.) I'm not interested only in the questions that you may feel haven't been answered yet, but also in questions that you do have answers to, but think other people will be curious about as well.
Please feel free to send responses to me via this list (your submitted questions may inspire other people to write some) or (if you like) to me via private e-mail.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
--Mike Godwin General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
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