[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Tchad

2019-05-18 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Tchad [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to promote use of the Wikimedia projects by people in Chad, to act as a hub for Chadian Wikimedians and as a voice for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interpretation of CC NC from SUISA

2019-05-18 Thread James Heilman
Interesting. So nearly everything is covered by a place of work. So there opinion appears to be that the NC license is simple a way to pretend one is using an open license well changing nothing. On Sat, May 18, 2019, 18:42 Yury Bulka wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Just stumbled upon an page where

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interpretation of CC NC from SUISA

2019-05-18 Thread Mister Thrapostibongles
Yury I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Firstly, this isn't the right venue for a discussion of the general principle of non-commercial licensing, especially as the Foundation has decided on the use of licences that permit commercial reuse. And secondly, there's nothing to prevent a rights

[Wikimedia-l] Interpretation of CC NC from SUISA

2019-05-18 Thread Yury Bulka
Hello everyone, Just stumbled upon an page where Swiss collecting society SUISA lists things which they consider commercial use within CC NC licenses, as applied to works they have copyright on (delegated from authors who are their members). It's quite interesting and I think it is a very good