[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Maybe, but one thing I noticed recently is that [[Section 230]] of the
>> CDA doesn't say that a service provider *isn't* a publisher, it says
>> they won't "be treated as" a publisher.  That's a subtle but perhaps
>> significant difference.
>>     
> That's a very significant difference. It doesn't say "a provider which
> is not a publisher", it just says "a provider". Based on that, I would
> say the WMF is the publisher of Wikipedia, but it isn't liable as
> publisher for user generated content.
The risk there is in trying to be everything and nothing at the same 
time.  The safest approach remains in keeping the publishing and ISP 
functions as far apart as possible.

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