Teaching people what is and isn't a genuine free content licence is one of Wikimedia's biggest headaches ... *anything* anyone has on the subject, please forward it to Erik.
(note: Several people from Creative Commons read commons-l, which is the list for Wikimedia Commons, the photo and media repository; people who know lots about FSF free content licences might find it a suitable place to keep an eye on as well. The CC people were enormously helpful with concerns over the CC 3.0 licences, said concerns being the reason for CC 3.01.)
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org Date: 14 Feb 2008 20:29 Subject: [Foundation-l] Licensing tutorials To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com
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could you send me some links - offlist is fine - to useful tutorials that you're aware of on free content licensing? I think there are some pages on Wikimedia Commons that might be useful, if perhaps a bit project-centric.
It would just be good to have some URLs to shoot to folks who have heard once of Creative Commons and open source - but really don't have a clue what any of it means, get confused about the commercial/non-commercial distinction, think they can still cut exclusive deals for some types of usage, etc. :-)
Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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