The CC-BY-SA license was certainly available -- it's one of the core CC licenses, and has been since the start.
The main reason Wikipedia had changes is, I believe, that the GFDL is simply a bad license for a wiki: the GFDL requires individual authors to be listed, and has other restrictions that make content reuse a bit cumbersome. Secondarily, there was the incompatibility with various other copyleft sources that are using the CC-BY-SA type licenses. Now, Wikinews is not using a copyleft license: CC-BY is _less_ restrictive than CC-BY-SA, and was chosen to be so on purpose. Our license allows much easier reuse of our content by commercial and non-commercial sources, with or without changes, as long as it's attributed back to us. The CC-BY-SA license, however, requires that if any changes are made in downstream reuse of content, the changed content is made available under a similar license. This, by definition, is more restrictive than just a plain attribution requirement. And this is the reason why Wikipedia content can't be copied to Wikinews: we are not able to offer the guarantee that downstream reuse of Wikinews content will follow CC-BY-SA. You can see the original discussion / voting at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License -ilya On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Brian McNeil <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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