License change/Decision

License of Anarchopedia for interfering with statist and capitalist entities is GFDL (otherwise, we don't care about it). The main reason for choosing that license is compatibility with Wikipedia. Wikipedia is now changing license to a kind of double licensing between GFDL and CC-BY-SA. Basically, the change is not relevant from our point, but if we don't change the license as Wikipedia changes it, the content from Anarchopedia won't be able to be included in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Because of that, we need to make a decision.

Discussion and voting starts at March 19th and ends at April 20th, 23:59. Option with the most of the votes will pass. One person may vote once per option.

Relevant pages

• Licensing update page for Wikimedia projects.
• Questions and answers made by Wikimedia community and WMF staff.
• License comparison at Meta Wikimedia.
• Timeline of the Wikimedia transition.

Discussion

About import into Anarchopedia: is it so big problem? Will anyone worry if Anarchopedia breaks licensing? Even if yes, I don't think that import articles is so important for Anarchopedia. I think it's better to write one's own small anarchistic article than copy a big and substantially useless one.

About export from Anarchopedia. This is not problem of Anarchopedia, this is problem of Wikipedia (and others). But! It will be problem only if Anarchopedia is against export. As mentioned above, 'license of Anarchopedia for interfering with statist and capitalist entities is GFDL (otherwise, we don't care about it)'. So, we are not against that out articles will be copyed. There is no problem of export at all!

Caesarion 16:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Poll

Decision on this poll is valid only if Wikimedia changes their licensing.

I don't care

(These votes won't be counted.)

Stay at GFDL

(We would be able to import the most of Wikipedia articles, but we won't be able to give our articles to Wikipedia.)

Switch to Wikipedia licensing

(We would be able to interfere with Wikipedia, but we won't be able to import GFDL-only articles.)

Switch to Wikipedia licensing with a possibility of importing GFDL texts

(As previous, but we would be able to import GFDL-only articles. However, this option makes our life very complex.)

Switch to the straight dual licensing

(We would be able to import the most of Wikipedia articles, Wikipedia would be able to take our articles, but we won't be able to import GFDL-only and CC-BY-SA-only texts.)

Switch to the straight dual licensing with a possibility to import GFDL and CC-BY-SA texts

(Combination of the two previous options. We would be able to do everything, but it makes our life very complex.)

Switch to CC-BY-SA

(Similar to switching to Wikipedia licensing: We would be able to interfere with Wikipedia, but we won't be able to import GFDL articles.)