On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun(a)gnowgi.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala
<arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The advantage of separately hosted Wikisource is that the artefacts are
self
contained and can be used readily. Photographic
media will be mainly
useful,
when they are embedded in an article. May be non
WMF projects can use
the
same. Unfortunately, this leads to fragmentation
in the sense there is
no
one source for the sum of human knowledge.
the last sentence made me think. Indeed! Todays political systems
want to preserve the fragmented space, fragmented knowledge and also
protect ownership of those fragments. This they do by signing
bilateral treaties. Due to these unfortunate incompatibilities
creative commons chapters in different countries have to write their
own versions of CC licenses. As the creative commons movement grows
big, we can nullify these treaties (such as TRIPS or ACTA) and achieve
that sum of human knowledge in one place.
Interesting.
Probably that will be true for new content. Old content will have to age
sufficiently to
qualify for free sharing under the laws of different countries of the
world. That may be too long a time for all enthusiasts of free sharing :-(
Cheers
Arjun