[Foundation-l] RfC: A Free Content and Expression Definition

[Birgitte SB]

--- Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wikimedia

>The definition makes it easy to resolve the question
>of which licenses
>to allow or disallow across projects. For example, a
>Wikimedia-wide
>policy could be that: "All content in all projects
>must be free
>content as per the Free Content Definition 1.0, with
>the exception of
>works which are used under exemptions granted by
>national copyright
>laws, such as 'fair use' in the United States. These
>exemptions are
>defined on a per-project and per-language basis."

I have a problem with Wikimedia adopting this proposal
as Wikisource certainly has a place for documents
availble under licences forbidding modification.  I do
not have specific examples in mind, but we already
have policy of protecting all works from modification
once they have been proofread to a certain degree.  I
wonder if your awarenes of this issue was behind the
reason Wikisource was excluded from your breakdown of
the ramications of the definition on each project.  I
can understand why you would want to define "free
content" in this way, however I am strongly against
Wikimedia adopting this definition as policy across
projects.

Birgitte SB

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