[cc-community] Why "Wiki license" = CC-BY-SA?
Andrew Rens
andrewrens at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 03:28:09 EST 2008
dear v111p
Your message bears no other name or designation. Who exactly are we speaking
to?
You will find extensive scholarly examination of the incentives for
participation in collaborative communities in Yochai Benkler's book the
'Wealth of Networks', appropriately available for download under a Creative
Commons licence.
This scholarly work sets out an empirical basis which supports what others
have already stated on this thread, that the possibility of appropriation
under an attribution only licence serves as a disincentive to contribute to
collaborative work such as Wikipedia.
Its also important to note that Creative Commons did not decide that
CC-BY-SA would be the licence to apply to Wikipedia, instead Wikipedia chose
copyleft, . It is noteworthy though that the most successful wiki in the
world was built using a copyleft licence.
Obviously you can freely choose to apply another Creative Commons licence to
your wiki.
It would be very useful if you could point to a successful wiki project
using A CC-BY licence for the purposes of comparison.
On 14/01/2008, v111p <v111 p at v111p.com> 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
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Andrew Rens
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