[Foundation-l] Is there a Foundation preferred license?

Erik Moeller erik at wikimedia.org
Thu Nov 9 15:14:27 UTC 2006


On 11/9/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> It depends how you define free. One problem with PD is that it doesn't
> guarantee the work will remain free, whereas a [[share-alike]] license
> will.

To be perfectly accurate, the original work will remain freely
licensed in both cases. Copyleft/share-alike applies to derivatives.
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