My understanding of the PSI licence is that it is much more restrictive than CC-BY-SA. In particular, it requires copies to be verbatim and does not license some commercial uses. I suspect it would be very difficult to roll over PSI licensed works into CC-BY-SA licences without major concessions by the OPSI.
It would be less of a challenge to make them compatible with CC-BY-NC-ND, but that would defeat the purpose of compatibility with Wikimedia, from what I understand. I'm no expert in the PSI licence however, so feel free to correct any misunderstandings here. Cheers, Andy Rufus Pollock wrote: > 2009/7/2 Joseph Seddon<[email protected]>: >> Heya guys, >> >> This is my first post to the list :) Hope we can have some great successes >> with WMUK and OKFN working together :) >> >> I wanted to ask whether UK PSI click use content is compatible and easily >> convertible to a CC-BY-SA license. > > My basic feeling is: yes. See: > > <http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/ukpsi> > > The only issue would be a) the fact you must get a click-use license > (it would be preferable if this were automatic -- and I think they are > moving that way ...) b) the obligations under section 9 (which are > reproduced at above link). These are generally innocuous and focused > on you not "passing" your derivative material off as official (which > is sort of similar to the provisions in the CC licenses). > > However niggling items like 9.4 (reproduce Material accurately from > the current Official Source except where you make it clear that there > is a more up to date version available;) could, possibly, be > problematic re CC by-sa. > > In summary: in spirit the answer would seem a definite yes. > > In practice likely also yes though one may have to check about those > pesky section 9 items > >> One of the directors at Wikimedia UK had a meeting with Richard Stirling >> from the cabinet office about crown copyright and we are currently lobbying >> them to ensure that PSI licensed content is useable on wikimedia projects. >> This particularly revoles around the compatibility with CCBYSA. Not only >> will this benefit us, but everyone, in and out of the UK. > > Good stuff. The major issue to lobby on, if any, are those clauses in section > 9. > > Rufus > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss -- Andy Kaplan-Myrth, M.A., LL.B. ------------------------------------------------ email: [email protected] web: http://kaplan-myrth.ca blog: http://blog.kaplan-myrth.ca ------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
