[Licom-l] Document review - motivation for the license change

[Erik Moeller]

I've made some tweaks to the License update page after discussion with Mike:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Licensing_update&diff=1430474&oldid=1429332

I've also taken a crack at revising the attribution section in the QA:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers&diff=prev&oldid=1430483

I also concur with John that the primary entry page needs to sum up
the case more clearly. I'll do some more document updates tomorrow and
hope that we can quickly move towards finalizing the documents as per
timeline.

Erik


2009/3/18 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> 2009/3/18 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
>> Based on people I've talked to, the most common objection seems to be
>> that some people feel CC-BY-SA makes it too easy to reuse content
>> without providing "adequate" attribution to authors.  In particular,
>> people object to the idea of putting attribution and licensing
>> information behind a URL since that may be inaccessible offline or
>> subject to failure is webpages move or die.
>
> I want to note that this is not an inherent property of CC-BY-SA but
> rather of the terms of conditions that we're proposing to use
> alongside CC-BY-SA. (CC-BY-SA essentially allows the author to specify
> their preferred method of attribution.) The attribution section of the
> Q&A needs some love; I'll try to focus some attention to it as part of
> a general document overhaul today.
>
> Erik
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