[Foundation-l] Licence

Florence Devouard Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 20 17:11:36 UTC 2009


Florence Devouard wrote:
> Someone asked me a question on the French wikipedia and to be fair, I am 
> not sure what to answer.
> 
> The CURRENT text of the licencing proposition gives a link to 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> 
> 
> Whilst the text of the resolution adopted in december 2007
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update
> Refers to
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
> 
> The second is the US one. Not the first.
> 
> What are the implications ? And which one is *currently* proposed for 
> the relicensing scheme ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Ant

By the way, is that completely normal that the site notice on the 
english wikipedia is occupied by Wikimania scholarship rather than by 
the change of licence ?

With all due respect to Wikimania, it seems to me the impact of the 
licence is higher than Wikimania scholarship.

Ant




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