Hoi,
The only thing that I read in all this wrangling about licenses is that they
are a major pain in the posterior. Whan you think about it in an abstract
way, we all know what the intentions of our projects are. In general the
advocates of all these 'free' licenses want us to do what we do. So 'de
jure' there may be a problem, in practice we have to be carefull not so much
about the differences of the Free licenses but more about the non-free
licenses.
The people who think that one Free license is better than the other and have
this as their reason for not cooperating are as crazed as the people who
believe that non-free licenses are not preventing cooperation.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11/21/05, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Wikipedia's use of the GFDL is already
absurd. If you want to
make any sense of things you have to look beyond the GFDL.
Dual licensing is not uncommon, with MySQL software often
mentioned as an example.
In a wiki without any mention of a license (I think
c2.com <http://c2.com>falls
in this category, and susning.nu <http://susning.nu> certainly does), the
wiki system
itself silently implies that articles can be edited and refactored
by other users, and that an entire text paragraph can be cut out
of one article and pasted into another within the same wiki.
People who save their contribution to any wiki can be assumed to
have agreed to this "implicit wiki license". In the case of
Wikipedia, this is de facto a dual licensing with GFDL, where the
implicit license includes recipies being moved to Wikibooks,
dictionary definitions being moved to Wiktionary, source texts
being moved to Wikisource, and articles being translated and
reused in other languages of Wikipedia. Because that is how the
system works, and you better know this when you contribute.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se
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