[Foundation-l] The license situation

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sun Oct 19 12:01:46 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > Which leads me to another question.  Who controls this definition?
> > http://freedomdefined.org/History gives a bit of the history, but I
> couldn't
> > find anything about the current situation.
>
> It's based on community consensus. See
> http://freedomdefined.org/Authoring_process
>

Right, but who controls what it's based on?  Who owns the website?  Who owns
the trademark?

I guess I see the answer to the first question:
http://freedomdefined.org/Moderators

Whew.  For a minute there I thought CC-BY-SA 3.1 might be considering the
world's first "copyright license that anyone can edit".  What a disastrous
idea that would be.


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