[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Brian wrote:
> Is this intended to imply that this full attribution must be on the same
> medium?
>
>   
Heavens forfend.

> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com
>   
>> wrote:
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>> Full attributions are often the only guarantee of clear
>> ability to reuse. That is a fact. It would be arduous to
>> clarify where it might not be. I am satisfied the lawyers
>> at CC would have taken any avenue to give the "BY"
>> part of the license more explicit boundaries; if
>> jurisdictional universal interoperability requirements
>> were easily swung that way. That they did
>> not so find, should be a powerful signal to WMF, which
>> after all has not really taken all that much trouble to
>> research the matter. (There have been forceful assertions
>> to the contrary, but they haven't yet demonstrated
>> to have discovered persuasive arguments to any effect.)
>>
>> If the primary objective is to set Wikipedia at odds with a
>> large segment of the world and its own contributors;
>> saying "Attribute all our content to Wikipedia, or else!"
>> ... "and let the devil take the hindmost editors." is a
>> nice way to accomplish that, of course.
>>
>>     

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen