Wiki license 0.5 beta

Evan Prodromou evan.prodromou at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 13:16:14 EST 2005


On Mar 28, 2005 6:02 PM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Evan Prodromou said:
> > Yeah, but it explicitly calls out iCommons licenses separately.
> 
> OK, I give up. I just did a side-by-side comparison of
> wiki 0.5 and sharealike-attribution-2.0 and
> the sections are identical.
> 
> They both call out iCommons licenses.
> 
> So, I still don't know where the mismatch is.


Yes, they're absolutely identical. Here's the issue that I'm trying to bring 
up, in a nutshell: derivative works of stuff available under ShareAlike 
licenses have to be available under a license with the exact same License 
Elements. The other license can be later versions of the "core" licenses, or 
iCommons licenses, or whatever, but they have to have the same License 
Elements.

So you can make a derivative of a work licensed under 
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0, and that derivative can be 
licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 5.7, or 
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike iCommons Russia 8.9b. They just have to 
be Creative Commons (TM) licenses, and they have to have by, nc, and sa as 
the set of elements.

The problem is that Wiki 0.5 and Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 both have 
license elements Attribution and ShareAlike. Unlike the previous examples, 
though, they don't differ in version or language or intended legal regime; 
they just differ in the details of Attribution. This makes their 
relationship kind of unique.

As far as I can tell, they are mutually compatible: you can take 
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 works and make derivatives under the Wiki
0.5license, and vice versa. My questions are:

   - Is this correct, or have I missed something?
    - Is this the desired behaviour? 
   - If this isn't the desired behaviour, how does one fix it? Could Wiki 
   0.5's attribution element be renamed "WikiAttribution" or something? 

I'm sorry if I'm making a mountain out of a molehill.

~Evan
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