[Foundation-l] Wikibooks NL is changing License

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 23:34:44 UTC 2007


Lodewijk, this is lovely news.  Thank you for sharing.  --SJ

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, effe iets anders wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The Wikibooks NL community has decided to change the default license
> of the textbooks for the future. That will mean that from a certain
> point in the near future all new submitted changes and new texts will
> be default double licenced under GNU FDL *and* CC-BY-SA-2.5 or later.
> The texts that are currently in Wikibooks NL will be marked as "GFDL
> only". This is so the project will be better able to spread it's
> content (as the reuser has a choise to use only a page of the
> wikibooks project without printing all the license etc)
>
> If every contributor of a certain page has agreed to relicense all
> his/her contributions on Wikibooks NL, also those in the past, under
> both licenses, the template stating the excemption of the default will
> be removed.
>
> It will still be possible to import pages from Wikipedia NL to
> Wikibooks NL. This will mean that a small part of the newly created
> pages will also be marked as "GFDL only". The community has taken some
> more precautions, such as creating templates to relicense all you
> contributions (HINT: {{Dubbel}}) and a page with explanation, but it
> would be too much in detail to explain that on this list. See this
> please as announcement, and contact the Wikibooks NL community through
> our Tutors' Chamber ([[b:nl:Wikibooks:Lerarenkamer]])
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Lodewijk Gelauff
>
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