[Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread Strainu
Hi, I was wondering if there is any way to officially free Wikipedia content under PD/CC-0? What procedure should one follow to use that data on another website with an incompatible license? Assumptions: we are talking about a single version of the page with only one or just a few authors, and

Re: [Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Morris
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:15, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if there is any way to officially free Wikipedia content under PD/CC-0? What procedure should one follow to use that data on another website with an incompatible license? Assumptions: we are talking about a

Re: [Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 26 August 2011 12:15, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is any way to officially free Wikipedia content under PD/CC-0? What procedure should one follow to use that data on another website with an incompatible license? Assumptions: we are talking about a

Re: [Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread Fae
Sounds a little problematic depending on the details. If the text was released on Wikipedia first, then the contributors agreed to release your contribution under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License. If the all the authors of the article can identify themselves as the same people who contributed under the

Re: [Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew Gray
On 26 August 2011 12:37, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds a little problematic depending on the details. If the text was released on Wikipedia first, then the contributors agreed to release your contribution under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License. If the all the authors of the article can identify

Re: [Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread WereSpielChequers
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Re: [Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread Strainu
2011/8/26 Strainu strain...@gmail.com: Assumptions: we are talking about a single version of the page with only one or just a few authors, and all authors have accepted to release the data in the public domain. As I said before, I am targeting only a very specific subset of pages, where