[OSM-talk] LocalWiki released

[Mike Dupont]

http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Copyright_policy#Non-commercial_licenses
    "Noncomercial-only licenses are basically the same thing as
torturing kittens."

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 12/09/11 22:01, Tobias Knerr wrote:
>>
>> There is actually an independent MediaWiki-based local wiki in my town
>> already, but some years ago they converted to a non-free license in
>> order to appease the local news paper that runs the servers. :(
>
>
> +1 - my city, Karlsruhe, prides itself to have one of the largest City Wikis
> in the world, but it's CC-BY-SA-NC and they spend half of their time suing
> people who use their content in a commercial publication. Sadly the fact
> that "NC" does not qualify as "free and open" has not really made into the
> heads of the general public.


>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>
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