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

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Thu May 5 22:48:45 UTC 2005


Erik Moeller wrote:

> The question then becomes, do we want to remove CC-BY or CC-BY-SA 
> content posted by others? Given the above, I'd say that it's 
> reasonable to label content under CC-BY as such and keep it. As for 
> CC-BY-SA, GFDL, etc., the situation is not quite as clear, but for the 
> sake of interoperability, I'd be inclined to be in favor of allowing 
> such content when labeled. Wikinews stories are relatively independent 
> from one another.

This is reasonable, but to be usable it should be restricted to only a 
few licenses, and they should be very clearly marked, so it doesn't 
become a confusing tangle of licenses for potential reusers.

-Mark




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