[Foundation-l] Donation of DVDs to Wikimedia Foundation Projects

geni geniice at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 17:38:14 UTC 2007


On 1/3/07, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
> How so?  I will admit that the GFDL is written primarily for textual
> manipulation and content, but that is about like saying the GPL is lousy
> for copyright purposes in a book.  Other than the "authorship" clauses
> being blurred so much for video that it is hard to determine exactly who
> participated with the development of the video (motion pictures can
> sometimes involve hundreds of people in the production of one "work"),
> I'm not exactly sure what the issue is here.
>

For that standard low res we video includeing a copy of the lisence is
a serious problem. the isue that the GNU logo itself appears to be
under the free art lisence is interesting complication although not
one most people will encounter.

I'm not really thinking about semi professional or professional films
but well in my case narrated instructional slide shows. So the number
of people involved isn't a problem. The problems asside from incudeing
the lisence are:

Has to be GFDL only since I can't figure out how the almagimation
stuff is meant to apply to videos. Free art  are and CC are out (thank
goodness for Wildebeests).

Ok I've included the lisence now how long do I have to include it for?
10 sec? 1 min?
-- 
geni



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