Content Articles
I would like to note that while using Wikipedia's FAQs, Help documentation, etc. does not bother me, I do not think that we should use GFDL work in main content articles. This is for three reasons, which I earlier listed at Talk:Basestar (TOS).
- CC-NC-SA work from the rest of the wiki cannot be incorporated into a GFDL article due to the NC clause.
- Portions of this article cannot be used elsewhere in the wiki for the same reason.
- Multiple licenses for different pages is very confusing, as we have just demonstrated.
In general, I don't believe that single articles derived from GFDL sources constitutes an inherent license violation, since it can be made clear that the works are not being relicensed under the CCL. However, the possibility that a naive user could accidentally create a license violation by migrating CCL content into a GFDL article, or vice versa, is highly troubling to me, and I feel that the best remedy is simply to avoid bringing GFDL work onto the main content area of Battlestar Wiki in the first place.
Additionally, if GFDL articles are to remain permissible in the main content area, it must be made clear that any contributions to them are also released under the GFDL, not solely the CCL as is the case for the rest of the site.
I am aware that this is not currently a policy, but would like to see the matter addressed formally. --Peter Farago 23:06, 9 January 2006 (EST)