[cc-community] Why "Wiki license" = CC-BY-SA?
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Mon Jan 14 15:11:26 EST 2008
v111p wrote:
> Does anybody here know why Creative Commons decided that the best license
> for a wiki site is CC-BY-SA, rather than, say, CC-BY or other non-copyleft
> license? Perhaps there is an explanation somewhere?
>
> http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?license_code=by-sa&wiki=true
I would guess that it best reflects the current most popular Wiki
licence (thanks to Wikipedia), the GNU FDL.
The FDL is copyleft, which is a good way of sharing value in a community
around a project such as a wiki.
BY would allow people to take the contributions of thousands of people
and make those contributions part of a project that excluded those
people. That is not a good basis for collaboration and would discourage
contributions.
People can still use BY or BSD or Public Domain dedication for a Wiki if
they want to. The existence of the CC Wiki "licence" doesn't prevent this.
- Rob.
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