[Foundation-l] Licenses' biodiversity : my big disagreement with the Wikimedia usability initiative's software specifications

Guillaume Paumier gpaumier at wikimedia.org
Mon Feb 21 08:42:25 UTC 2011


Hi,

Le dimanche 20 février 2011 à 17:07 +0100, Teofilo a écrit : 
> 
> I think the upload wizard should
> 
> - allow non-CC licenses such as License art libre, or GNU GPL, GNU
> LGPL, Open Source Music License, etc...
> - when CC licenses are chosen, allow to pick up licenses from any
> version (2.0 or 2.5 or 3.0) and any country as freely as with
> http://creativecommons.org/choose/ , eliminating the "NC" and "ND"
> versions which don't fit Commons' licensing policy.

Is *that* what this thread boils down to?

Adding support for the full list of licenses accepted by the Commons
community is a planned feature of the upload wizard (and it has always
been).

More details are available at http://ur1.ca/3aw1k

-- 
Guillaume Paumier
Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation
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