[cc-community] CC and wiki
maiki
maiki at interi.org
Sun Oct 14 08:10:04 EDT 2007
I need some advice concerning wikis and CC licensing.
I run a Mediawiki site that I use for personal thoughts, events, notes,
basically a bunch of things that a wiki is good for. It is open to the
public, and is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA. My reasoning for this was
that I was going to use it to write down my brilliant ideas, and I
figured that if someone ended up using a creative writing or some other
licensable tidbit that I had posted there I would want it to stay open
for everyone. Thinking on this I realize that this was inspired by my
attitude towards software and copyleft.
Recently I have been leaning towards a much more liberal license,
specifically CC-BY. On the CC website there is a wiki license page that
generates a CC-BY-SA Unported, whereas the CC wiki itself is licensed
under CC-BY.
So, my questions to the community are these:
What is the reasoning behind a CC-BY-SA for a wiki?
How would you license a wiki?
When one attributes the work, who does one attribute, the wiki, the
contributor, both, or some other combo/entity?
I have been banging my head against the wall for a while now because I
feel like I really should know the answers to these questions. So,
please help me sleep at night. Any insight is appreciated. ^_^
maiki
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