Episode 38: Interview w/Brianna Laugher
Special episode: An interview with Brianna Laugher (User:Pfctdayelise) on the recent gift of US $20,000 for the Phil Greenspun Illustration Project, and her administration of the project to “pay” volunteers to create free illustrations.
Also, the recent news of GFDL and Creative Commons license compatibility, what are the details and what does it mean for Wikimedia projects. Hosts: Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) and Liam Wyatt (User:Witty Lama)
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Note: I actually made a mistake, GPL doesn’t have a “or any later version” clause in it, but some software projects choose to add that requirement for their contributors.
Some links
Philip Greenspun illustration project
Philip Greenspun’s website
Inkscape
greenspun-illustrations mailing list
Erik Moeller’s mail: CC-BY-SA migration checklist
CC-BY-SA legal code
GFDL text
Comment by pfctdayelise — December 14, 2007 @ 9:46 am
Hi,
I think I heard one of you guys was a sysop. I was wondereing why wikipedia doesn’t have back to top links at the begining or end of each portion of an article.
Tnx
Comment by U5K0 — December 17, 2007 @ 10:04 pm
An important difference between GFDL and cc-by-sa is that GFDL requires the full text of the license (about 10 printed pages) to be attached whenever you print out more than 100 copies of GFDL-licensed text. This is a huge drawback for people wanting, for example, to hand out printed copies in large classes. Clearly, cc-by-sa is much better suited to the spirit of a free encyclopedia.
I find it disappointing that different free information movements find it so hard to work together. GFDL and CC are so close in spirit that one would have thought any incompatibilities should have been resolved years ago.
Comment by Zvika — December 18, 2007 @ 8:36 pm