Development of Creative Commons licenses

[wiki_tomos <wiki_tomos AT inter7.jp>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts 
<cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:03:08 +0000
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Discussion Draft - Proposed License Amendment to 
Avoid Content Ghettos in the Commons


>   - Wikitravel (part of the WikiMedia project) - CC-BY-SA
>     http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page

Just a minor point for this discussion, but if you mean Wikitravel is 
one of the projects funded by Wikimedia Foundation, I think that's not 
the case. ( http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects )

But English Wikinews, for example, uses CC-BY 2.5. 
(http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Copyright )


>To my knowledge, the main GFDL work is Wikipedia. And that was an 
>unfortunate choice due simply to lack of good alternatives. They chose 
>GFDL before CC-BY-SA was around. Let's not make the problem even worse 
>by promoting GFDL for a portion of creative works.

This is what I've heard, too. And some of newer projects of Wikimedia 
went through discussions of alternative licensing schemes such as CC-BY-SA, 
or GFDL - CC-BY-SA dual licensing, but many ended up sticking to GFDL 
to keep the compatibility with Wikipedia's contents. 

Cheers, 

Tomos