[Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

Tom Morris tom at tommorris.org
Fri Aug 26 11:20:54 UTC 2011


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:15, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any way to "officially" free Wikipedia
> content under PD/CC-0? What procedure should one follow to use that
> data on another website with an incompatible license?
>
> Assumptions: we are talking about a single version of the page with
> only one or just a few authors, and all authors have accepted to
> release the data in the public domain.
>
> Possible answers I have considered:
>  - a message from each author in the talk page of the article (pros:
> easy to implement, wiki-based; cons: language barrier)

That seems the most sensible way. It's not an OTRS issue.

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Tom Morris
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