[Foundation-l] The license situation

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 01:53:19 UTC 2008


2008/10/18 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> 2008/10/18 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
>> Why debate the license terms here and now?
>
> Because CC has tried to address some of the concerns and objections,
> it would be good to know what you perceive as the key remaining
> issues. I've found CC generally to be very responsive and open to the
> needs of the Wikimedia community.

There have been no changes to the license text to do so and in some
cases it would be impossible to do so.

Issues are among others:
Hard vs soft copyleft
the GFDL 1.2 only images
People who uploaded images under the GFDL because it's clumsiness
makes conventional commercial use tricky.

-- 
geni



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