[cc-community] Why "Wiki license" = CC-BY-SA?

Clifton Gumbs cogumbs at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 05:52:58 EST 2008


 Be advised I am *not v111p* HOWEVER My nickname ( I.D) for this site is: *
GUMZE*

Regards,

On Jan 15, 2008 3:28 AM, Andrew Rens <andrewrens at gmail.com > wrote:

> 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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