Re: [Wikinews-l] [Ticket#2006081710006179] Getting permission to use news of wikinews.org

Hello Maria Shinkevich! Your message was forwarded to the Wikinews mailing list, and we've been discussing it, but you might not have been CC'd on all the replies, so allow me to make a single over-view response. SonicR noted there is no limitation to broadcasting our news, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license version 2.5 (a description of Creative Commons licenses may be found on the English Wikipedia at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Creative_Commons_License>, the actual licensure synopsis and legal text may be found at <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/> He also noted there are several RSS-feeds for different languages of Wikinews: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews (English) http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/wikinews-rss/rss-de.php (German) http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=009340 (Spanish) http://tools.wikimedia.pl/~derbeth/wikinews.xml (Polish) Michael Danko also talked about how the CC-by license allows re-use of our content, and pointed out the following statement on the English Wikinews home page: "All content is released under a free license. By making our content perpetually available for free redistribution and use, we hope to contribute to a global digital commons." I can serve as a volunteer contact person for your organization. I will forward more contact information shortly, but feel free to e- mail me immediately. I can put you in touch with technical people as necessary. Amgine aka Wayne Saewyc On 19-Aug-06, at 11:47 PM, Wikimedia Foundation wrote: