[cc-community] [cc-licenses] Fwd: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Jan 21 12:21:34 EST 2009
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-January/thread.html#49083
>
> >From a post in the thread: "We're not a co-author credit factory.
> CC-BY-SA isn't an ego trip for
> thousands of co-contributors. These are inappropriate uses for article
> space and page display space."
>
> This is absolutely right. The objections in the thread rely on very
> un-Wikipedian expectations of individual credit and of the articles
> only ever being presented electronically. They are culturally and
> technically wrong.
I agree, and it is primarily a cultural and technical issue surfaced
by licensing discussion rather than vice versa IMO.
> Why is Wikipedia going for dual licencing, though??? The reasons on
> the talk page are hardly compelling.
See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047013.html
Mike
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