2009/3/19 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: > This kind of construction makes one copyleft license in practice just > a little bit stronger than public domain.
Um, no. The power of copyleft is in preserving freedom to re-use on derivatives. Can you point to any piece of writing that somehow links copyleft inherently to attribution? I consider the two to be completely de-linked, and some people have in fact proposed copyleft licenses which do not require attribution. That said, that is a philosophical tangent, because we're not proposing to remove attribution. We're not even proposing to alter it: We're proposing terms of use that are consistent with what's currently written on pages such as Wikipedia:Copyrights, and with what Wikipedia itself has been doing since its inception. Essentially, the underlying theory is that for massively collaborative works, linking to a copy that includes the change history is a reasonable alternative to including the change history directly. The attribution terms are phrased precisely to assure that this author credit is retained in the linked-to copy, when author credit is not directly given. In this regard, the terms represent an improvement to what's currently stated in our terms of re-use. By switching to CC-BY-SA, we reconcile those terms with the content license. > Moral rights are not respected because: > > 1) If authors won't be able to say that their name should be kept -- > or it won't be a widely known fact. > 2) If it would be an option, authors wouldn't be represented equally. > Just authors which explicitly say that they want to be attributed -- > will be attributed. No, you're confusing terms of participation in a project like Wikipedia with moral rights. Wikipedia can set its own terms of participation in any way that's reasonably consistent with the fundamental legal philosophy of moral rights. Linking to a copy of the content that includes author credit satisfies that criterion. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
