[Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

[David Gerard]

On 17 June 2011 16:08, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be honest, when you release your work under cc-by-sa you grant a
> third party the right to reuse a (small or large) part of your work to
> make a derivative work. The license in itself is not what determines
> that the live version of a Wikipedia article is the last one, this
> happens because of Wikipedia policies. And of course, your (old)
> version is not deleted from the article history apart from a few
> cases. The point is: Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia, if
> people don't accept this they can always publish somewhere else.


Indeed. "No ownership of articles" does not follow from the licence -
it's just the way things happen to be done on Wikipedia.

For comparison, I understand that Wikibooks are considered somewhat
"owned" by the person starting the book.


- d.