[cc-licenses] Citizendium project requests advice on licenses

Jaroslaw Lipszyc jl at creativecommons.pl
Sat Jan 20 05:52:13 EST 2007


Tim Chambers napisał(a):
> Citizendium -- CZ for short -- is Larry Sanger's "fork" of
> Wikipedia.) Can someone from the CC community help us understand whether
> it's important to start off with a CC license (we're leaning toward the
> cc-nc), or to follow Wikipedia's lead and use the GFDL?

I understand, that if Citizendium is a Wikipedia fork you are obliged by 
the GFDL license to keep it. CC BY-SA is not GFDL compatible and you 
cannot relicense works without explicit agreement from all contributors. 
And that seems impossible to do...
If you - as topic on forum suggests - start from blank, it's another 
issue. However, keeping license compatibility with Wikipedia will allow 
other people to remix and combine your work in a possibly very creative 
ways. CC BY-SA may be a better license, but i believe right now 
compatibility is a much more desired feature and will bring much more 
opportunities to the people.
I see you discuss using NC license. Please, keep in mind that NC license 
is very prohibitive and will greatly reduce usefullnesss of your work 
(no pressing Citizendium on CD and throwing it as an add-on for magazine 
etc.)
greetings
Jaroslaw Lipszyc



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