On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 05:04:43PM -0400, Sarah Stierch wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Kim Bruning <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > > Why? Because our mission is to make things free (as in speech). > > You may have heard about that ;-) > > > > > Here is WMF's mission statement: > > "...under a free license..."
In general: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_speech More specifically: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge even more specifically: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Content Past which point we start analysing the actual free licenses. > Just thought I'd remind people of the actual Foundation mission and vision, > since technically Wikipedia itself does not have a mission statement (and > perhaps someone will correct me if I'm wrong). Wikipedia however does have > the purpose to be the world's largest free encyclopedia. In general for the movement: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principles Specific on en.wikipedia: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars sincerely, Kim Bruning (Incidentally, it will be very interesting to see how CC and FSF react to filtering and/or prejudicial labelling of CC and/or GFDL content.) -- [Non-pgp mail clients may show pgp-signature as attachment] gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
