Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Credits
💡 In simple words: WikiDeal was imagined by one person, Théo Bondolfi. The idea is being given away to everyone: step by step, the rights are being transferred so the whole project belongs to its users and stays free for all.
Credits & Licensing
Concept
The WikiDeal concept was imagined by Théo Bondolfi for the Ynternet.org Foundation.
Rights transfer to the users
A process of complete transfer of rights is underway, so that WikiDeal ultimately belongs to its users, through the Ynternet.org Foundation.
This is deliberately described as a process: the rights are not transferred in advance. The full transfer takes effect once the agreed conditions are met. The corresponding agreement is still to be finalised — it is one of the upcoming milestones of the project.
The goal of this process is simple: that everything ends up under a free license, owned by the community it serves.
License
Everything on WikiDeal is published under a free license:
- Content (articles, contracts, documentation): Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — the same license as Wikipedia.
- Software: GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPLv3) — the strongest copyleft free-software license, the family used by MediaWiki.
This means anyone is free to use, share, study and improve WikiDeal, provided derivative works remain free under the same terms.
WikiDeal's founding research question: Can users own, run and sustain a global marketplace?