[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikinews-l] Licensure straw poll
Jean-Baptiste Soufron
jbsoufron at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 07:22:27 UTC 2005
Still, there are other projects using GFDL that would benefit from a
correct - and clear - compatibility. Plus, we should not stick to your
case only and I am certain that there are some wp contributors who would
be happy to be able to re-use wn content.
Ilya Haykinson a écrit :
> On 8/30/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm forwarding this to Wikipedia and Foundation-l since the poll could
>>potentially make Wikinews incompatible with Wikipedia or any of our
>>other projects. Currently, content from Wikinews can be used in
>>Wikipedia (though not the other way around). CC-BY-SA is not
>>compatible with the GNU FDL, so this would not longer be the case.
>
>
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> For what it's worth, it makes little sense for Wikipedia to use
> Wikinews content beyond what's considered fair use. Wikinews is not an
> encyclopedia and tries to not have any encyclopedic articles, and the
> Wikipedia "current events" section is really short enough of a mention
> that it's fair use at worst and wholly original at best.
>
> -ilya haykinson
> en.wikinews
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