After the switch to Creative Commons BY 2.5 license, there was some confusion at de.wikinews how to explain the new retrictions to those who want to mirror or spread Wikinews articles. As far as I have understood they have to give attribution to "Wikinews", provide a link to the license and show that the original content was released unter CC-BY 2.5. Please correct me if this is not correct.
Some suggested to create a site on meta to write more precise intructions for those who want to spread Wikinews content. There we could write the texts of sites like MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning and Wikinews:Copyright or Copyright FAQ and translate it into all Wikinews languages. With respect to license issues all nessecery informations needs to be correct and the same in all versions, because all content is released under the same license. The sites which will be written at meta could serve as frame. Local communities can add more information if they want to. If nobody is interested in a site like this, I don't start it. I've seen that the Polish community provides a link to the polish version of the CC-license. Most of the other versions provide a link to the US-Version of the CC-license. I don't know how big the differences are, but I think using the US-Version might be correct.
Stefan
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SonicR wrote:
After the switch to Creative Commons BY 2.5 license, there was some confusion at de.wikinews how to explain the new retrictions to those who want to mirror or spread Wikinews articles. As far as I have understood they have to give attribution to "Wikinews", provide a link to the license and show that the original content was released unter CC-BY 2.5. Please correct me if this is not correct.
Some suggested to create a site on meta to write more precise intructions for those who want to spread Wikinews content. There we could write the texts of sites like MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning and Wikinews:Copyright or Copyright FAQ and translate it into all Wikinews languages. With respect to license issues all nessecery informations needs to be correct and the same in all versions, because all content is released under the same license. The sites which will be written at meta could serve as frame. Local communities can add more information if they want to. If nobody is interested in a site like this, I don't start it. I've seen that the Polish community provides a link to the polish version of the CC-license. Most of the other versions provide a link to the US-Version of the CC-license. I don't know how big the differences are, but I think using the US-Version might be correct.
Stefan
Using CC-by 2.5 does require attribution to Wikinews, or the original authors. It requires a link to the license or the full text of the license. I'm not entirely sure it must say it is licensed under CC-by 2.5, but it probably does.
It would be a good idea to develop a site on Meta to write a simple but accurate statement for Wikinews content reusers. Realize that CC also has very useful license summaries. My one concern is that any information on Meta might contradict portions of the CC-by license, or accidentally provide misinformation. I will ask members of the WMF legal community about this.
- - Amgine
As far as I can say, if we want to avoid any risk of misunderstanding, it would be much better to use CC material to explain CCBY2.5
But even so, these licenses were not written for being used on such content as Wikinews. There will be problems of interpretation and application that will require some material on our own to guide content reusers.
Still, that's not the case yet and we should stick to CC explanation material as much as we can.
Jean-Baptiste Soufron
Amgine wrote:
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SonicR wrote:
After the switch to Creative Commons BY 2.5 license, there was some confusion at de.wikinews how to explain the new retrictions to those who want to mirror or spread Wikinews articles. As far as I have understood they have to give attribution to "Wikinews", provide a link to the license and show that the original content was released unter CC-BY 2.5. Please correct me if this is not correct.
Some suggested to create a site on meta to write more precise intructions for those who want to spread Wikinews content. There we could write the texts of sites like MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning and Wikinews:Copyright or Copyright FAQ and translate it into all Wikinews languages. With respect to license issues all nessecery informations needs to be correct and the same in all versions, because all content is released under the same license. The sites which will be written at meta could serve as frame. Local communities can add more information if they want to. If nobody is interested in a site like this, I don't start it. I've seen that the Polish community provides a link to the polish version of the CC-license. Most of the other versions provide a link to the US-Version of the CC-license. I don't know how big the differences are, but I think using the US-Version might be correct.
Stefan
Using CC-by 2.5 does require attribution to Wikinews, or the original authors. It requires a link to the license or the full text of the license. I'm not entirely sure it must say it is licensed under CC-by 2.5, but it probably does.
It would be a good idea to develop a site on Meta to write a simple but accurate statement for Wikinews content reusers. Realize that CC also has very useful license summaries. My one concern is that any information on Meta might contradict portions of the CC-by license, or accidentally provide misinformation. I will ask members of the WMF legal community about this.
- Amgine
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