On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, <wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> That's easily answered. >> >> I'm not "renaming the license". I'm proposing that there be a tick box >> for that very same license with a more friendly tag that tells the >> user "can be used on Wikipedia". The license doesn't change, it's just >> the way it's communicated. >> >> I love and support the Creative Commons licenses, but they can present >> you with a lot of reading. A decision that says "can be used on >> Wikipedia" would be much more immediate. >> > > It is also very misleading. Whilst many people would love to have their > work on wikipedia they might not want it used by Microsoft, News > International, Ford, Walmart, the Meat Marketing Board, or etc. So if > you feel that people need to be educated into using a license compatible > with wikipedia, you really do need to spell it out for them that they > are also making available to all those others too. That's a very fair comment. Is it possible to keep my proposal intact and address those issues? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
