[Foundation-l] The license situation

[Birgitte SB]

It is really only useful for evaluating if a particular license qualifies as free content.  In all other aspects of evaluating free content it is too vague to be useful in practice.  I don't think there will be any notable disagreements in the community over the conclusions in the former cases.  And in the latter cases, it is so open to interpretation that their are no real conclusions.

Birgitte SB 


--- On Sun, 10/19/08, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:

> From: John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The license situation
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 12:28 PM
> I hope no one seeriously consider using that site for
> defining what
> writers on Wikipedia means about free cultural works. If
> so, then
> someone should think through very carefully how the
> comunity operates
> and how it will react on something like this.
> 
> John
> 
> Anthony skrev:
> > 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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