Re: [Wikimedia-l] NC and ND content (was: Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations...)

2019-08-12 Thread Todd Allen
NC would also create a nightmare for downstream reusers. If I want to use some portions of a Wikipedia article in a blog post, and I have a couple ads on my blog to help defray the hosting costs, does that violate NC? And certainly the stuff James brings up, regarding providing mechanisms for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] NC and ND content (was: Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations...)

2019-08-12 Thread James Heilman
Yah I have mixed feelings about NC. There is a lot of great content under this license which would benefit our readers if we could use it. We for example have folks like Khan Academy and the World Health Organization who refuse to adopt open licenses. They tell us that we can use their content

Re: [Wikimedia-l] NC and ND content (was: Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations...)

2019-08-12 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, There was once a report in which I read: Wikimedia Commons should allow NC and ND content because that is somehow good for "communities that are historically prohibited from telling their stories". Then I asked on the talk page for the reasoning behind this demand/postulation. The answer I