[Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news'

[Brian McNeil]

Commons is the most compelling project to be compatible with. If you
actually look into the details of CC-BY-SA it is the license Wikinews would
probably have chosen were it available at the time. CC-BY-SA makes Wikipedia
content vastly more useful to a lot of places and clears up significant
potential fair use issues quoting content on non-CC-BY-SA sites.

Remember, Wikipedia ended up GFDL as a historical accident. They've worked
from that - including strongarming 'The Bearded One' - into writing a
get-out-of-GFDL clause. CC-BY-SA is *currently* the best choice for the WMF
mission. I don't think it was available when Wikinews went from PD to CC-BY.


Brian.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:wikinews-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jason Safoutin
Sent: 30 May 2009 16:26
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Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news'

Why though? Then what purpose does it serve to have changed WP to 
CC-BY-SA if it still prevents  copying from WP to WN or the likes? In 
that sense, it really makes no logical sense. I thought the goal was to 
make the WP license more compatible with other project licenses? If so 
then changing it to CC-BY-SA isn't doing that at all (aside from commons).

-- 
Jason Safoutin
Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator
jason.safoutin at wikinewsie.org



Paul Williams wrote:
> 2009/5/30 Jason Safoutin <jason.safoutin at wikinewsie.org 
> <mailto:jason.safoutin at wikinewsie.org>>
>
>     Why could we not copy from WP? SA is just the basic same as regular CC
>     BY. If copying from WP will still not be allowed, then why did they go
>     through the trouble to even change the license if its still not
>     compatible with other projects?
>
>
> CC-BY is not the same as CC-BY-SA - we (Wikinews) must publish our 
> content under CC-BY-SA if we wish to copy from WP.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Williams
> paul at skenmy.com <mailto:paul at skenmy.com>
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-- 
Jason Safoutin
Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator
jason.safoutin at wikinewsie.org


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