[Foundation-l] Wikinews Licensing

[Erik Moeller]

During the brainstorming phase of the project, we ran a small straw poll  
on what the preferred license for Wikinews content would be:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License_straw_poll

The content that is currently on the Demo wiki is in the public domain in  
order to facilitate the migration to any other license. In the straw poll,  
there is currently a small lead in favor of using dual licensing, but the  
opinions on what licenses to use differ: Some think we should dual-license  
as copyleft, others believe that we should allow non-copyleft uses for the  
sake of simplicity. The straw poll as such is not very conclusive.

If there are no objections, I will go ahead and hold a real vote on the  
issue as soon as demo.wikinews.org is moved to en.wikinews.org. However,  
please note that this is a rather far-reaching decision, so Board input  
would be appreciated.

Regards,

Erik