[Foundation-l] Re: New project licensing

[James D. Forrester]

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Benjamin Webb wrote:
> Wikitree is currently voting on a new liscence at http://wikitree.org/index.php?
> title=WikiTree:License_poll.
> 
> So far the consensus seems to be public domain, would this be acceptable for a 
> Wikimedia project?

No, based on the inability for almost all people in the world to legally
contribute based on that licence (many countries have no legal scope for
a person to relinquish their work into the public domain, including the EU).

CC-BY is effectively the same, FWIW, and I would counsel the use of that
instead. CC-BY 2.5 even allows the crediting of an overall collective
organisation in lieu of the individuals (i.e., "this is released under
the Creative Commons Attribution licence; please credit WikiTree").

HTH.

Yours sincerely,
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James D. Forrester
Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
E-Mail    : james at jdforrester.org
IM (MSN)  : jamesdforrester at hotmail.com
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