Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-15 Thread geni
2008/11/15 Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hoi, > When the EU develops a law that deals with copyright and licensing, it will > implicitly include "Free" licenses. EU backed laws have tended towards incidental hostility to free licenses. >It is exactly for this reason that > communities li

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When the EU develops a law that deals with copyright and licensing, it will implicitly include "Free" licenses. It is exactly for this reason that communities like ours who have at least an idea of what we consider to be the right way forward are asked to step on the plate. When we, as a commu

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Academy Lund

2008-11-15 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, Now, the Wikipedia Academy in Lund has ended. A big success, as the number of participants was double the number we had anticipated. The entire conference was covered by three bloggers, collected here: http://wikipediaacademy.blogspot.com/ (Swedish, but translatable for example via Google),

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-15 Thread geni
2008/11/15 Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 14 Nov 2008, at 15:47, geni wrote: > >> 2008/11/14 teun spaans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Agree. >>> >>> And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses >>> could be >>> informed? >> >> >> There is nothing in there of any real signif

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Peel
On 14 Nov 2008, at 15:47, geni wrote: > 2008/11/14 teun spaans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Agree. >> >> And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses >> could be >> informed? > > > There is nothing in there of any real significance to free licenses. Isn't that something that shou

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia.org

2008-11-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, All projects are started with consent of the board. I take it that the board has the final say on blocking / removing projects. I can imagine that the WMF office / organisation takes this decision on there own accord. These are the two who have the power to establish facts. Thanks, Gerar

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia.org

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Everson
The powers that be, Gerard? Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l