[Foundation-l] New project licensing

[Delirium]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>What is this project about anyway? I can't access it right now for some reason.
>If it is, as I suspect, related to taxonomy or is focused on creating articles
>about living things, then that would be duplicated of two existing Wikimedia
>projects; Wikipedia (which aims to have articles on every genus on earth and
>articles on every living thing for which more than a stub can be written about)
>and the ill-conceived and poorly-executed fork of that at Wikispecies (a
>project that is nearly as embarrassing as the Sep11wiki). 
>  
>
Insofar as it would be a more limited taxonomical database, it wouldn't 
even be eligible for copyright, at least in the United States 
(collections of facts aren't copyrightable), making the licensing 
discussion a bit academic.

-Mark