For anyone interested in documentation licences and Wikipedia: "Lawrence Lessig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Last week the Wikimedia Foundation board took an important step[1] > toward giving Wikipedia the right to choose to migrate to a Creative > Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Credit goes to the Wikimedia > Foundation and Free Software Foundation for having the wisdom and > foresight to enable this progress. > > However, the real work has just begun. As Wikipedia founder Jimmy > Wales put it[2]: > > Now, community, we have a lot to talk about. :) > > For Creative Commons, this means continuing[3] a discussion concerning > how the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license can be improved so as to not > only be the best available license for a massively collaborative > content project, but the best such license feasible. > > To start with, Wikimedia board member Erik Moeller has posted[4] a > list of issues that we want to address -- with input from across the > CC community. > > One of these issues holds particular interest: Should the ShareAlike > requirement be more precisely defined for "embedded" media, and if so, > how? For example, if an image licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike is > used to illustrate an article, must the article be similarly licensed? > This has previously been discussed[5] on the cc-licenses list, and we > welcome the opportunity to drive that discussion to a happy > conclusion. > > Tentatively the eventual outcome of these discussions will be a new > version of the CC licenses. We'll say version 3.5 for now -- a > significant improvement, but still within the framework of version > 3.0[6] and folding in the work done so far on proposed version > 3.01[7], thanks again to the Wikipedia community. > > The primary venue for this discussion focused on improving CC licenses > is the cc-licenses list[8]. We encourage you to subscribe and > participate. Of course related discussion will and should continue on > Wikimedia and other lists. > > Thanks again to the WMF and FSF, and thanks in advance to you, the > community, for the work that is ongoing and about to begin! > > > Lawrence Lessig > CEO > Creative Commons > > > [1] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7876 > [2] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035554.html > [3] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7718 > [4] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035677.html > [5] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2007-February/thread.html#5142 > [6] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3 > [7] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_301 > [8] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses > _______________________________________________ > cc-licenses mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses >
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