[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

[Brian]

You have a very clear sense of what is legal and what is not.

However, I am under the impression that in this case the FSF and CC
determine what is legal since there are very few cases where these issues
have been brought up in court. The FSF and CC determine what the licenses
"say" and whether or not a potential break with particular verbiage is in
the spirit of the licenses. They've already demonstrated that what the
licenses say are flexible to the needs of the WMF.

You can argue all day long about what licenses "actually" say. Ultimately I
don't think there will be that much of an issue in that area. The real thing
we need to discover are the needs of the WMF. What kind of attribution is *most
consistent with the goals of the projects? *Flexible attribution of course.
We are leaving the GFDL for good reason - no need to drag it along with us
in the change to CC-BY-SA.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/2/3 Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>:
> > I never said anything about disregarding the law. I don't give a rat's
> > ass *how* I'm attributed, as long as I'm not forgotten for the work I've
> > done. If there's a legal requirement for a certain method and/or
> > degree of attribution, then obviously that takes precedence over
> > personal preferences.
>
> As an author you can accept any form of credit you like. You cannot
> demand credit beyond what is reasonable to the medium or means.
>
> > You say the license says one thing. Other people say it doesn't.
>
> Yes. Strangely none of them are people a recognise from dealing with
> wikipedia's day to day copyright issues.
>
> > It's
> > obviously a very grey area (if it was black and white, we wouldn't be
> > having this debate).
>
> No it's a very B&W area (at least the bit we are arguing over). People
> are trying to cloud the issue.
>
> >My only point was to solicit wider feedback, not
> > have a poll to overrule legal requirements.
>
> Until people stop proposing stuff that isn't legal wider feedback is
> of only limited use.
>
>
> --
> geni
>
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