I agree with Bawolff on this one. The license change is mainly a
problem for GFDL wikis, which suffer from some problems with
attribution and reuse in CC-licensed projects as a result of their
license. We do not have this issue, and don't really need to change.
Even if we wanted to, we would face an uphill battle in making our
license more restrictive retroactively. Unless there's an overriding
reason to do so, I'd elect to retain our more-free license in place.
Goodness knows, we don't need _more_ restrictions on reuse of Wikinews
content ;-)
-ilya
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From my understanding, wmf wants to change the lices
from gfdl to
cc-by-sa-(3? not sure on version) which is quite different than cc-by
(similar to the difference between GPL and BSD from my understanding).
We also don't really have the ability to arbitrary change license (we
could say something like from this day forward, everything is blah
license, but thats messy).
Anyways, i think our license is pretty good. Many people feel that
modifying wikinews content without allowing redistribution is a
perfectly good use of our content, which a change in license would
disallow.
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- bawolff
p.s. everything before sep 05 is PD, not GFDL. We currently have only
a single gfdl article in all of wikinews (not counting help ns +
images)
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Jon Davis <wiki(a)konsoletek.com> wrote:
I realize we all _love_ a conversation about
changing licenses... but here I
go.
The WMF has been disusing the change of WP from GFDL to CC-BY (since that is
now allowed for a short period of time). Since everything newer than Sept
05 on en.wn is CC-BY-2.5 (and everything older than that is GFDL)... why
can't we "upgrade" all the old articles to CC-BY also? I realize we
don't
"need" to do it, as the old articles are of little interest to most people,
but we have the opportunity... shouldn't we take it?
-Jon
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