distribution of licenses

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon Mar 7 07:49:26 EST 2005


On Monday 07 March 2005 06:51 am, Greg London wrote:
> drew Roberts said:
> > On Sunday 06 March 2005 06:36 pm, Greg London wrote:
> >> The only problem I see now is that SA-NOBY
> >> won't play with SA-BY, which is unfortunate,
> >> but I think any large SA project would really
> >> have to be NOBY for it to survive massive
> >> contributers.
> >
> > SA alone would also work, the option to not give the BY would always be
> > there if giving the BY became a burden.
>
> Yes, a project could always tell the contributers
> that they must agree to license their submissions
> under ShareAlike with Attribution Waived.
>
> > Why do you think it is necessary for attribution to
> > be forbidden in a large project? I don't see the logic?
>
> Just keeping track of all the contributers becomes a hassle,
> and extra burden above and beyond the burden of trying to
> get a new project going. And unless who also track who
> contributed what, you simply accumulate a list of all authors,
> whether their contribution actually made it to the final
> version or not.

You are addressing why attributin must not be required, not why it should be 
forbidden.

Again, I am proposing 3 options.

For example:

1. CC BY-SA   (attribution required)
1. CC SA    (attribution permitted, but not required)
3. CC NOBY-SA   (attribution forbidden)

I think a large project would work with either 2 or 3 but that 3 may 
discourage some who are in it for the attribution. 1, as you say, could get 
way too cumbersome.
>
> If someone starts a CC-SA project for movie projects,
> you'll have video clips, sound clips, scripts, actors,
> and so on. Say I stumble across this site and really
> like a sound clip I found. Who contributed it?
> It was in the movie, and the movie credits end with a
> laundry list of every contributer.
>
> I just want to use the sound clip under ShareAlike.
> This means that the movie site will have to keep
> track of who contributed what for anyone to be able
> to use those pieces outside of the original project.
> Keeping track of who contributed what can be a pain
> in the butt, especially if you've got lots of derivations
> going on (A wiki to allow anyone to modify a movie script),
> and lots of different types of medium.
>
>
>
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