[Foundation-l] Licensing resolution

[effe iets anders]

also, Dutch Wikibooks made the switch for all new content after 15 April
2007 already for the dual license CC-BY-SA / GFDL, so nothing new here for
them, except that old content will finally /all/ be dual licensed :) (no
more exceptions on pages with older versions).

A big notice in the general sitenotice for all visitors might be worth while
btw to reach all re-users.

best, lodewijk

2009/5/22 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt op gmail.com>

> Congratulations to everyone involved in the effort to get this happening!
> It's been a long road - a longer road than many of us have seen.
>
> Just a quick point I'd like to raise about Wikinews in relation to the
> license change.
>
> Wikinews has never used GFDL or cc-by-sa, it uses cc-by. Therefore, this
> license change will not be affecting Wikinews.
> As a result I think it's important that we don't say in any of our public
> statements on this topic "all Wikimedia projects are changing...". Instead
> I
> suggest that we use phrases like "all GFDL content" or "All relevant
> Wikimedia projects" or something like that.
>
> The board statement is ambiguous on this point. It says "...to relicense
> the
> Wikimedia sites..." but the Wikimedia Foundation blog said "the Wikimedia
> Foundation will proceed with the implementation of a CC-BY-SA/GFDL dual
> license system *on all of our project’s* content." [my emphasis]. The
> licensing
> update <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update> page on Meta does
> specify that we are only talking about content which is currently GFDL: "to
> make all content currently distributed under the GNU Free Documentation
> License (with “later version” clause) additionally available under CC-BY-SA
> 3.0, as explicitly allowed through the latest version of the GFDL;"
>
> Once again, congratulations everyone on the hard work and diligent effort
> on
> this complicated issue.
>
> -Liam [[witty lama]]
> p.s. I suppose the same point goes for Wikimedia Commons which includes a
> whole variety of licenses including much in the Public Domain.
>
> wittylama.com/blog
> Sent from Sydney, Nsw, Australia
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