[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Sun Feb 8 21:46:56 UTC 2009


Is this intended to imply that this full attribution must be on the same
medium?

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Full attributions are often the only guarantee of clear
> ability to reuse. That is a fact. It would be arduous to
> clarify where it might not be. I am satisfied the lawyers
> at CC would have taken any avenue to give the "BY"
> part of the license more explicit boundaries; if
> jurisdictional universal interoperability requirements
> were easily swung that way. That they did
> not so find, should be a powerful signal to WMF, which
> after all has not really taken all that much trouble to
> research the matter. (There have been forceful assertions
> to the contrary, but they haven't yet demonstrated
> to have discovered persuasive arguments to any effect.)
>
> If the primary objective is to set Wikipedia at odds with a
> large segment of the world and its own contributors;
> saying "Attribute all our content to Wikipedia, or else!"
> ... "and let the devil take the hindmost editors." is a
> nice way to accomplish that, of course.
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>
>
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