[Wikipedia-l] Force user to choose a licence when uploading data

Peter Jaros rjaros at shaysnet.com
Wed Mar 17 22:17:43 UTC 2004


On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> I think there is universal support for this proposal, actually this
> proposal:
>
> 1.  Force the user to choose a license
> 2.  Force the user to fill out a field (or more?) indicating the source
> 3.  Write this on the page: {{msg:<NameOfLicense>}}
> 4.  Additionally store the license and source information in a separate
> database field

What about {{msg:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}}, which takes an 
"argument" (text following the tag)?  Perhaps a text field after the 
license choice?

Peter




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