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

[Thomas Dalton]

On 11/09/2007, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> 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.

It's not really a choice we can make. The WMF is what it is. If that
is a publisher, then so be it. If it isn't, then great. We can't
decide.