On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Mathieu Stumpf <psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
> One of my favorite wikimedia project is the wiktionary, I probably use > it everyday and I like to contribute on the french chapter here and > there. > > As I'm learning esperanto, I wanted to improve the french wiktionary on > this topic. My first thought was to begin by gathering a list of > vocabulary, make a todo page with links and go on. > > But I found that there is already a free/libre dictionary out there : > Reta Vortaro[1]. Morever this dictionary provide definition in several > languages, so I thought instead of making a word by word contribution > only for the french chapter, I could add a whole esperanto dictionary to > several chapters in once. It sounds great doesn't it ? > > Unfortunately, this dictionary is under GPL which is a well known free > license (but a strange choice for a non-software project). So I would > like to know, can I mix up a GPL content with a CC-by-sa page (in cases > where such a page already exist), and more generaly can I add GPL > content into the wiktionary. No. What you stumbled upon is a well-known (at least to me) problem of share-alike licences: The only thing they are two-way compatible with is themselves. Even if one would have a different license with exactly the same meaning, it would not be possible to move texts from that license to CC-BY-SA (or GPL or whatever) or vice versa. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l