On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 09:53 -0700, Steve Foerster wrote: > In our case, though, part of the delay is that I believe that > something that comes out of the public domain should stay there, even > as it's revised, so having a complete WE policy on exactly how we use > alternative licenses within WE will be helpful.
Absolutely -- my personal view as an advocate of the free knowledge community is that we shouldn't apply additional restrictions on any materials that are already in the public domain. Given that public domain isn't technically a license, it would be far easier to integrate PD materials than say GNU(FDL) given the legal incompatibilities between FDL and CC-BY-SA. To speed up processes for when the Council is established, we can already start work in building on the draft policy on licensing. WE has already confirmed the use of CC-BY materials in good faith with the understanding that we will be drafting a policy to support this implementation. The pragmatic requirements re CC-BY materials in WE that we will need to think about are: * The need to state upfront that a new project is CC-BY and not start with CC-BY-SA and then decide to shift to CC-BY at a later stage; * For CC-BY projects to monitor their watch pages to ensure that CC-BY-SA content is not copied into CC-BY projects without a distinct identifier that a given paragraph or section is licensed under CC-BY-SA. Other than these issues, I think that it shouldn't be too hard to develop a workable licensing policy. Cheers Wayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
