2009/2/19 Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com>: > In my opinion, it is incumbent upon us to give examples of how we > believe third parties can legally and practically reuse WMF content by > exercising rights under CC-BY-SA. If we can't, in our collective > wisdom, agree on how third parties ought to be able to accomplish that > under the new license, then the license is probably inadequate for our > needs. > > Now we don't have to cover every way that CC-BY-SA might be used. And > we don't have to go through every possible complication that might > occur with wiki content. But I do think we must be prepared to give > concrete examples of how the license may be used in common > applications, and that requires being willing to confront the question > of "reasonable" attribution. > > If someone comes to us and says: "I want to print a copy of [[France]] > in my book. What is a reasonable way to comply with the license?", > then we really ought to be able to answer that question. If we can't > agree on an acceptable answer to that question under CC-BY-SA, then we > probably shouldn't be considering adopting it. > > For the record, I am open to the idea that we might well be able to > get nearly everyone to agree on a set of "reasonable" usage guidelines > consistent with the terms and spirit of CC-BY-SA, but I agree with > Thomas that it is important that we address that either before or > concurrent with the relicensing effort.
Excellently put, I agree 100%. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l