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RE: [Bug-gnupedia] GNUPedia - Nupedia: Different approaches


From: Duncan Lock
Subject: RE: [Bug-gnupedia] GNUPedia - Nupedia: Different approaches
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:21:38 -0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Behalf Of Zeno Gantner
> Sent: 18 January 2001 2:45
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Bug-gnupedia] GNUPedia - Nupedia: Different approaches
> 
> We should discuss if the Nupedia license is compatible to the
> definition of "free" in the GNUPedia announcement.
> If so - very good! 
> If not, let's talk about changing it!

As far as I can tell from looking at the Nupedia website they are using
the same license proposed for GNUPedia, the 'GNU Free Documentation
License', as
written by the FSF.

> If the license is compatible to the GNU ideals, the project that
> is now called "GNUPedia" has already some content. But there is
> no need to merge, because Nupedia should go on and work on the
> encyclopaedia (with quality control and so on), and GNUPedia
> cares about licensing issues, finding other resources, writing
> of articles/courses that don't fit into Nupedia and spreading the
> idea of a free universal encyclopaedia.

        I am puzzled about the need for a different project. The license
appears to be the _same_ as the proposed GNUPedia license. Maybe the
GNUPedia is meant to be a meta umbrella project, I don't know. This wasn't
impression I got from the announcement though; the project I envisaged from
that _was_ to all intents and purposes nupedia. They certainly seem to have
resolved most/all of the technical issues discussed on this list and their
'production' system seems well thought out. This is the only gripe I can see
from the FSF's point of view: that the nupedia editing procedure is too
'closed' and restrictive and involves exercising editorial control,
effectively.

        I wish someone from the FSF would clarify this a little: How does
nupedia.org fit into the GNUPedia scheme of things, or vice versa?

Dunc.



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