[Foundation-l] Wikinews licensing

Anthony DiPierro anthonydipierro at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 28 13:54:28 UTC 2004


> 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.

License stories which use Wikipedia content under the GFDL, and license
those that don't under CC-BY.

Anthony



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