Re: [Wikipedia-l] dual licence?

It isn't unreasonable to think, that with no institutional effort on our part, the FDL and the Creative Commons, and public domain will flow together. Individual contributors may pursue it (and perhaps reunite with Isis) but for most of us, these discussions are academic. We claim no copyright, don't want any, wouldn't accept it, and are occasionally bemused by trying to figure out how we ended up with one after so much effort not to have one. I have never been involved in a discussion of the GFDL in Wikipedia that didn't feel like a troll to me. See [[Talk:Oregon City, Oregon]] and [[Talk:Hitler has only got one ball]]. Tom Parmenter Ortolan88 |From: erik_moeller(a)gmx.de (Erik Moeller) |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin(a)wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org |Date: 08 Feb 2003 01:48:00 +0100 | |> Your GFDL contributions will fall into the public domain 70 years after |> your death anyway. Why wait? Why not release them right now? I found |> the idea quite liberating, actually. | |The FDL idea is, of course, more anti-copyright than the public domain |idea, because it is intended to convince others to release their content |openly. It turns copyright against itself - the only freedom it takes away |is the freedom to exert control over content. The FDL has various problems |(GNU is primarily about software, and hasn't really spent much work on |developing decent general open content licenses), and other licenses |aren't established enough. | |The copyleft concept only works well with a standardized license. Neither |GNU nor Creative Commons will give that to us. I do believe that |Wikipedia's use of the FDL will give it a big boost, and that we can |increasingly use that as an argument that the FDL *is* the standard share- |alike license. Isn't that amazing - we're already so big that we can argue |that something we do is right because we do it. Almost like Microsoft ;-) | |Regards, | |Erik |_______________________________________________ |Wikipedia-l mailing list |Wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org |http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l | _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l