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“ Wikisource is unique in being a free content library, as this quotation from the Licensing policy FAQ draft words rather well:
We are a project built on a principled mission—to create and encourage free content. Because of this, our policies are intended to further that mission, and not just to keep us from getting sued. Using images under licenses other than the ones we choose to accept may not get us in legal trouble (although in some cases they definitely can) , but they don't help us with our goals. ”

“ Perhaps because our primary purpose is the collection of source texts, the wiki software is ideal; there are far more texts written throughout human history than there are articles on every Wikipedia combined, and it is difficult enough to collect them all without being limited to a few webmasters and a static web site. With the wiki system, any visitor can instantly post a new text, create a translation, adjust an annotation, change a category, update an index, et cetera. ”

“ The Copyright policy prohibits fair use entirely, not only of entire works. A public domain text that contains fair use has the same restrictions as a fully copyrighted work, particularly since we explicitly allow commercial use and fair-use-incompatible rights in our end-user licensing. (Note that War and Peace is in the United States public domain because the United States does not recognize perpetual copyright.) ”

“ We're not all quite so hawkish on deleting things just because they don't meet a very narrow interpretation of "Free" - I imagine a better solution might be to create a template warning readers "While the bulk of this work is in the public domain, the original authors did incorporate some work which we cannot guarantee is equally public domain" or such, which we would then tag onto the appropriate texts. There is no reason to emasculate and lessen our great (and perfectly legal) resource, when we could simply be informing readers who can then make the choices themselves. ”

“ If I understand correctly, you would like Wikisource to enforce moral rights for all works worldwide, even for users not based in countries with moral right legislation. If so, this would mean either: requiring attribution for and prohibiting all changes to (including wikilinking, translation, annotations, et cetera) every work on Wikisource, given that requiring author's approval is incompatible with the GFDL (under which all Wikisource content is licensed) ”

“ The bottom line is "free content" must be defined in way that is based on what can be practically done with a work, not on the terminology or juristiction of the restriction. If a work with the attributes A, B, and C is how we define a free work, than we cannot require works to also have attribute D where available or else be classified unfree. ”

“ Fair use does violate the Foundation's mission. All content, according to the Foundation licensing policy, must be available under a free content license as defined by the Definition of Free Cultural Works. This definition states that free content can be freely viewed, used, distributed, modified, and exploited by anyone, in any form, and for any purpose (including commercial exploitation) without exception and without limitation (with some very limited exceptions such as attribution) . The en-Wikisource copyright policy was recently rewritten based on this definition. ”

“ Although Wikisource does not require works to be free "everywhere"; it also does not tie itself so closely to US law as Pathoschild implies. The servers are in the US, which only means we cannot infringe on US copyright law not that we define free by US copyright law alone. Our goal of being a free content library is based on the principle of free content which is tied to no particular juristiction and must be defined outside of any one juristiction. ”

“ Perhaps these licenses will end up being too restrictive for us even with translations allowed, but they are not the same as a non-derivative license. At the least we should clearly determine what restrictions are the one that push the balance scale to "non-free" for future reference. I don't think whether parodies are allowed is a good test, because I believe that is an issue in any system with "droit d'auteur". I believe the part of law you have a problem with is dealing with w:Moral rights (i.e. the right to the integrity of the work) . ”

“ New pages should only be created for stand-alone works such as poems. Whether a particular article in a periodical stands alone depends on whether it is a separate work that was first published in the periodical, or a work specifically intended to be published therein. In cases where there are many articles and only some are stand-alone, it is far easier, better organized, and more legible to include all articles as subpages with redirects as appropriate. ”

“ The Foundation's licensing policy allows the development of an Exemption Doctrine Policy for fair use, which allows fair use despite the fact that it otherwise violates the licensing policy and our mission. However, it is my sincere opinion that allowing fair use on a Wikisource project does far more harm than good. ”

“ Since the goal of Wikisource is to be a source for "free texts", not "free ideas", the first applies to this site, while the second does not. My position regarding works covered by moral rights and other restrictions is: 1. if and when only a few jurisdictions are affected, tagging with a disclaimer is appropriate 2. if and when the vast majority of jurisdictions outside the US countries are affected, hosting these documents and then claiming that this site provides only free works to anyone is ridiculous, unless your definition of "anyone" is "Americans". ”

“ As Erik pointed out, our German sister project already has an index page with information for listeners and speakers, which I'd be willing to translate. Nevertheless, before a spoken work is advertised as complete/reliable, it should go through a quality control process, which, given that the audio files come from an external source, would incorporate special scrutiny that the spoken works are actually the same versions as their written equivalents on Wikisource. In this light, a check/upload bot might not actually be necessary, even unwanted sometimes. ”

“ If some wants input the entire National Geograohic Collection as subpages; GREAT! If someone wants to input all academic articles on fruit flies as stand alone pages; GREAT! Any contribution people want to make that fit the goals of this project is EXTREMELY WELCOME. We can make everything mesh together with tranclusion. The Manual of Style is tertiary. Trust the people that care most about the subject matter to make the best decision. If there is strong disagreement that cannot be compromised; consensus rules. ”

“ The reasoning outlined at "m:Do fair use images violate the GFDL?" is not applicable to Wikisource, where we are trying to build a free content library: "An image, when legitimately used under fair use doctrine, can be treated similar to public domain, and hence can be relicensed under GFDL. If further usage and distribution lead to the loss of fair use status of the image, default copyright law applies and the image and so the article cannot be distributed at all." ”

“ I've normalized the Catholic Encyclopedia header template, but I would suggest using the {{header2}} template directly. It automatically adjusts for empty parameters, so this is ideal for bot creation. Using the standard header template is preferable over a specialized template since it makes it easier for bots to parse pages; the specialized templates should generally only be used for works in progress, and replaced with the standard header (usually by substituting) when the work is complete. ”

“ Output a warning message if a user removes parameters. Leaving blank parameters (as has long been recommended) allows users to create a perfectly-standard new page simply by copying an existing page, and allows bots to easily parse the template (see the style guide) . You can see a live example of the template in my fourth sandbox. Pathosbot can take care of updating uses; I will update documentation and the script files of anyone using TemplateScript. What do you think? —{admin} Pathoschild 00:56:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I like it. ”

“ Will you replace that system on current pages, and wouldn't it be easier and quicker to add the navigation directly to your file using a regex editor? The index you've created is incorrect; every article should be named "Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) /Article title", not "Article title", which is easily corrected. (I'll move the current pages to the parenthetical standard before you start.) Be careful with special characters; you cannot work from a normal text file, as that replaces Unicode with nonsense like "Ã2". ”

“ You are not going to be able to convince this community to write a book of nitty gritty rules when they would rather spend their limited time improving the content. I am sorry if this come across harshly, but I tell you from long observation that a MOS conversation will have no further takers. ”

“ If notification is required, this significantly constricts freedom by requiring lengthy and manual efforts to contact the author. Whereas it is easy to attribute authors when publishing a large collection, it is very difficult and time-consuming to contact dozens of individual authors. Further, should the author change email address or other contact information, all works by that author will instantly become unusable by all third parties forever after. If notification of the author is only requested, there is no problem hosting it on Wikisource. ”

“ There is no fully correct answer whether articles in academic journals, newspapers, and magazines are stand-alone. Some may be but others may not be. Should it become necessary to make mass moves, having a bot may be easier than manual moves.--Jusjih 17:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC) I don't see why this is such a big issue. A reason that subpages are used is that many times (like in magazine/newspaper articles) a particular article has no existence (meaning are not well known) outside of the magazine/newspaper it was published in. ”

“ We should delete works with fair use content and wait for their copyright to expire, much as we must do for other copyrighted literature. A work cannot be almost compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License ”

“ Also, as a personal note, you might try phrasing your opinions less as "word of God", and more as an equal participating in a debate - "This is X and must be Y" only serves to increase the sense of antagonism faced by other users, who then adopt a "challenging authority" attitude, and tensions escalate. ”

“ Once a text has been fully proofread, it is protected from editing. Until it is, though, user-editability is a great asset. —{admin} Pathoschild 06:18:15, 01 April 2007 (UTC) A useful device Why haven't you created some device that turns your text into green automatically if you have made no mistake, and into red if something is wrong ? It would be far easier to ameliorate one's work, particularly if the mistake itself were turned into red, then one would know where it is. ”

“ Spoken works and LibriVox On the mailing list, Erik Möller suggested that the Wikisources' collection of spoken works may be expanded by free material from LibriVox and that he's going to write a bot to automate the upload to commons, provided that there are sufficient volunteers to add links to the media files and keep a spoken work index up to date. ”

“ Wikisource does take a middle ground, because it's not even remotely feasible to require freedom everywhere (not even Commons requires that) . We require one of the following, which cover virtually all copyright cases on Wikisource. For example, works by the United States federal government are accepted because they are released into the public domain. permission by the copyright holder to release under a GFDL-compatible license; a release into the public domain by the copyright holder ”

“ What should I do?? Not so confusing? --Neo-Jay 01:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC) I second much of what BirgitteSB said, although I disagree with using transclusion. Editions printed in different sources are often different, with annotations, "improvements", formatting changes, transcription mistakes, et cetera. If there is only one source on Wikisource, a redirect is sufficient; if there are multiple, a disambiguation page is.
It is my opinion that subpages are preferable in nearly all cases of periodicals, and for this reason all periodical articles I have added are on subpages. ”

“ I would have to look into this, but the United States typically does not recognize perpetual copyright; works will fall into the US public domain at the end of the applicable US copyright term. —{admin} Pathoschild 01:55:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC) FYI, the legal terminology used is not perpetual "Crown copyright", but Crown prerogative rights (not, I imagine, that it would make any difference to American law) . ”

“ At least all the articles I listed above, National Geographic Magazine/Volume 31/Number 3/What Great Britain is Doing, The International Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 1/International Weekly Miscellany/Martin Farquhar Tupper, The North American Review/Volume 171/Issue 526/The Empire of the Dead, The New York Times/Sporting Intelligence, Factsheet Five/Issue 25/Turning Over New Leaves of Grass, in my judgment, should be moved to be independant articles. You are right. There is no perfect rule. ”