[Foundation-l] Only non-commercial re-use od Wiki content?

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Tomasz Sienicki <tsca at edb.dk> wrote:
> 
>  "After the consultation with Wikimedia lawyers I can inform you that
>  it is acceptable to import content to our Wiki under the licence
>  disallowing its commercial re-use," wrote the admin of one of the
>  Wikimedia projects and entered into a co-operation with a certain
>  external service (with the aim of importing their content to the Wiki
>  under such non-commmercial re-use only licence; although the service
>  agreed to relicence their content as PD, the admin suggested CC BY-NC).

Wikimedia lawyers? Since when have we had lawyers? Who the hell is this admin?
Admins do not have any authority to enter into any agreement on behalf of the
foundation without board approval. 

>  My personal opinion is that this goes against the policy of Wikimedia
>  and violates the principles crucial to a lot of people who contribute
>  to the Wikis. 

Not just opinion, you are exactly right. It is also a clear violation of the
GNU FDL. 

-- mav



		
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