Commons is the most compelling project to be compatible with. If you actually look into the details of CC-BY-SA it is the license Wikinews would probably have chosen were it available at the time. CC-BY-SA makes Wikipedia content vastly more useful to a lot of places and clears up significant potential fair use issues quoting content on non-CC-BY-SA sites.
Remember, Wikipedia ended up GFDL as a historical accident. They've worked from that - including strongarming 'The Bearded One' - into writing a get-out-of-GFDL clause. CC-BY-SA is *currently* the best choice for the WMF mission. I don't think it was available when Wikinews went from PD to CC-BY. Brian. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Safoutin Sent: 30 May 2009 16:26 To: Wikinews mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news' Why though? Then what purpose does it serve to have changed WP to CC-BY-SA if it still prevents copying from WP to WN or the likes? In that sense, it really makes no logical sense. I thought the goal was to make the WP license more compatible with other project licenses? If so then changing it to CC-BY-SA isn't doing that at all (aside from commons). -- Jason Safoutin Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator [email protected] Paul Williams wrote: > 2009/5/30 Jason Safoutin <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Why could we not copy from WP? SA is just the basic same as regular CC > BY. If copying from WP will still not be allowed, then why did they go > through the trouble to even change the license if its still not > compatible with other projects? > > > CC-BY is not the same as CC-BY-SA - we (Wikinews) must publish our > content under CC-BY-SA if we wish to copy from WP. > > Regards, > > Paul Williams > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > -- Jason Safoutin Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
