[cc-community] I got someone to CC license their work.

Rob Myers robmyers at mac.com
Tue Jan 25 05:21:42 EST 2005


There's a few Wikipedians contributing articles under BY-NC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons_Attribution-NonCommercial_2.0_License

But you seem to need to multi-license to do so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multi-licensing

I don't think WP will accept CC-only work, not even CC-BY-SA, they require that work always be FDL so they can keep derivations within WP.

- Rob.

On Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at 01:23AM, Michael Edwards <commoncontent at onearmedman.com> wrote:

>Hmm, will Wikipedia take Attribution-NonCommercial?  AFAIK, the
>Wikimedia Commons, the adjunct photo/media site for the wikis, doesn't
>allow by-nc because the NonCommercial conflicts with GFDL, which allows
>for commercial use.  I think Wikipedia may have the same restriction.
>Anyone know?
>
>-Mike Edwards
>
>On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:22 -0500, Zen Lunatic wrote:
>> It's a very strange site listing over 400 "ways to die" for humans.
>> http://quinnell.us/society/deviance/death/ I emailed the author
>> telling him that this would be great for wikipedia. He says he
>> wouldn't mind wikipedia using it. So I email him back saying license
>> it as such. In a month or so he emails me back saying, "I licensed the
>> ways to die site under creative commons." (Attribution-NonCommercial
>> 2.0). I just sent him a email thanking him for his license. I feel
>> good having known I may have played a part in this. Anyway I'm off to
>> read the way to die site and try to get it on wikipedia.
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