[Foundation-l] Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Draft Statement of Intent

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Sunday 06 April 2008 01:13:01 SlimVirgin wrote:
> On 4/5/08, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > Milos Rancic wrote:
> >  > May you inform us about at least some of your conclusions (I am
> >  > particularly interested in Mike's conclusions, of course)? Also, while
> >  > I am not perfectly informed about this, I really wouldn't miss the
> >  > information which you said now. So, please, may this process be a
> >  > little bit more transparent?
> >
> > I am not sure what I can tell you.  What do you want to know?
> >
> >  It is not possible to tell you blow by blow the state of complex
> >  discussions.  It's the hands of lawyers who are working very
> >  thoughtfully about how to deal with complex issues.  Discussions have
> >  been going on for years, and things are very close to resolution.
>
> I'm doubtless being extremely dense here, but can someone say what
> practical difference, actual or potential, any of this makes to
> Wikipedia?

If a future version of GFDL is CC compatible, Wikipedia could use texts 
released under CC-BY-SA licenses. Also, without the requirement of printing 
the GFDL wit the work and enumerating the authors and changes, Wikipedia 
content could be reused more easily outside of Wikipedia.