On 29 January 2011 11:41, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> This seems like a good place to mention that the precedent was set by the >> Beta >> news agency ( http://www.beta.rs/ ) which gave permission for its news to be >> uploaded to Wikinews as CC-BY. > > I was completely unaware of this! > > I think we need a list of such examples. A WMF blog post may be appropriate.
Agência Brasil (Radiobras), the Brazilian government news agency, releases its material as CC-BY. Using the highly unscientific method of sampling the changes to the Commons template, it looks like they've been doing this since mid-2006: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Ag%C3%AAncia_Brasil&action=history -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
