I also agree that it should be CC-By-SA so as to be compatible with Wikipedia. I am sure that content coming from Wikipedia would be legal, but no idea about the other way around. All that is needed is a note indicating that it came from Wikipedia and a link to the page. Wikipedia would then take care of the attribution.
Just a side-note about those templates. The reason they look so bad is because the codex is missing a plugin. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Potkanski, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not a lawyer. > > http://codex.wordpress.org/GPL > > Codex licensing is GPL. Wikipedia content is GFDL/CC-BY-SA. These are > generally considered not compatible. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/04/msg00258.html > > My personal thoughts are that the Codex itself is under incorrect licensing, > as the GPL is designed as a document license. Welcome to license hell. > > -Jason Potkanski > Tribune Technology > > > On 6/7/10 1:48 PM, "mrmist" <[email protected]> wrote: > > In message <02de01cb063a$e34fd1c0$6401a...@dell8600>, Michael E. Hancock > <[email protected]> writes >>There's been a few templates [1] added to Codex recently that are taken >>from Wikipedia. >> >>Are there any copyright issues involved with using those templates in >> Codex? >> > > The copyright messages on Wikipedia seem to relate to the content itself > rather than the delivery mechanism, so I can't be sure. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Copyright > > There may I suppose be licensing issues if the templates class as > content and the license to use the content is not applicable to the > WordPress Codex. > > > -- > mrmist > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > _______________________________________________ wp-docs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
