[Foundation-l] Re: [Juriwiki-l] Re: Copyright complaints

[Ray Saintonge]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Angela wrote:
>  
>
>>>You've come in months after I was trying to sort this out and
>>>completely contradicted what was thrashed out then. It really would
>>>have been helpful if you had actually participated in things months
>>>back. There are going to be more than a few rather annoyed Wikisource
>>>users at this news.
>>>      
>>>
>>Can you please point out where Wikisource agreed to allow CC-BY-NC-ND
>>text? I don't recall any mention of it on any of the mailing lists I'm
>>on. It really shouldn't be news to anyone using Wikisource that all
>>Foundation projects require freely licensed text.
>>    
>>
>Totally.  That's been foundation policy forever.
>
IIRC the issue was about whether resolutions of the UN Security Council 
were copyrightable.under US law.  If they are not copyrightable the 
issue of licences doesn't matter.

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