[Foundation-l] Commons content reuse how-to?

[Delirium]

David Gerard wrote:
> There is [[Commons:Licensing]], which seems mainly to be for
> contributors. But is there a page on Commons that is a simple guide to
> people wanting to reuse content? If not, should there be? Is there a
> page anywhere else that serves this purpose?
>   

There isn't, as far as I know.  There should be, though we should make 
clear that we're providing informal/nonlegal guidelines that we think 
(but don't guarantee) explain the requirements for reusers, because we 
don't really have the authority to provide official interpretations of 
licenses we didn't write.

Unofficial guidelines for the major licenses we use would be useful, 
though---often the problem isn't so much the legal details, as the 
potential reuser not even knowing in broad terms what the reuse 
requirements are (for example, which licenses are copyleft ones and 
which aren't?).

-Mark