Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright issues of wikimedia projects

Daniel Mayer <maveric149-/[email protected]> Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:37:35 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.legal
Message-ID <20040607223735.58575.qmail__43738.1064323292$1086647873@web51607.mail.yahoo.com>
--- Delirium <delirium-88qmZGEba/[email protected]> wrote:
> ....
> I'm not sure what the "free content" movement should call itself.  
> "Creative commons" is one term I rather like, as it emphasizes the space 
> (a "commons") in which many different materials (or simply "stuff") can 
> co-exist rather than grouping the materials themself under a single 
> moniker, but the term seems to already be taken by a particular 
> instantiation of the idea.

Actually I just found out that CC founder Larry Lessig is now on the FSF board
of directors. Hopefully this will mean that we will be able to more
successfully lobby for a FDL 2.0 and CC-by-sa that are compatible and thus be
able to migrate to the CC-by-sa instead of essentially writing a new GNU
license. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)


	
		
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