[Foundation-l] Wikinews licensing

[Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales]

For my own blog, Joi Ito convinced me (quite easily, once he explained
it) to use CC-BY-2.0.  This is the attribution-only license, which
allows derivative works, and which is not a copyleft license.

The key point that he made is that if newspapers want to reprint some
editorial that I write in my blog, copyleft can cause them some fears
and headaches.  I was also considering a no-derivs license (after all,
what I write in my personal blog is personal opinion, and do I really
want people modifying my personal opinion and redistributing it?), but
then he pointed out that translations are a derivative work, and of
course I want people to translate what I write on my blog, since I'm
always trying to speak from a global perspective to a global audience.

Some of this same reasoning applies to wikinews.  But for wikinews, a
really *big deal* is compatibility with Wikipedia.  (Or, am I wrong
about that?  How often will a news story really need to have content
from wikipedia that exceeds ordinary fair use or quotation rights?)

I don't know of any clever solution which gets us both advantages.

--Jimbo