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License discussion
editPermissible use from the Icannwiki page on Nigel Roberts.
- Hi Jgreene1333, this will seem really dumb, but the Icannwiki is published under CC-BY-SA-4.0, which at the moment is not a compatible free license for importing text into Wikipedia. The legal team is reviewing it, but for now they've said that it is no-go. See WP:COMPLIC for the official word. So until they work that through, this article would need to be re-written or removed. Like I said, I know it doesn't make sense that it's not "free enough", but that's the position of the legal team at the moment. CrowCaw 00:31, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Rewritten to avoid the Icannwiki content - should be rerun to avoid the copyright issue Jgreene1333 (talk) 13:53, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi again Jgreene1333, and thanks for your understanding (and the kitten!). There's still a fair amount of the icannwiki text here. You can click THIS for a comparison in real-time (to the last saved edit) with the Icann page. Thanks! CrowCaw 22:43, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've removed the copied text. It can be rewritten, but must be in the editor's own words – the facts and ideas can be taken from reliable sources but the (unless those sources happen to have a licence compatible with ours) the language, the form of expression, may not. Wikis are in any case almost invariably not reliable sources for our purposes. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:15, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi .. I've worked on this page to show all the relevant references . . . for notability purposes. It shouldn't wholesale copy the ICANN stuff for now, but I presume that problem would go away if ICANNwiki release permission?? Sdeerhake (talk) 05:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
- If ICANWIKI changed their license from CC-BY-SA-4.0 to CC-BY-SA-3.0, then the license problem is solved. It is probably easier to just paraphrase that source rather than try to convince them to change their sitewide licensing model though. CrowCaw 18:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)