[Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 14:17:34 UTC 2009


2009/2/1 Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net>:
> I wasn't aware that anyone was suggesting that we remove attribution
> altogether, just that we attribute Wikipedia as a whole for the sake
> of everyone's sanity, and in consideration of the extremely limited
> (if not negative) value that such mass attributions provide.

That would legally prevent us from importing any material first
published outside wikipedia. It would also legally prevent us from
using any material that is currently in wikipedia or added to
wikipedia before this switchover.




-- 
geni




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