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  • From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj AT gmail.com>
  • To: Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli AT concordia.ca>
  • Cc: "AcaWiki general \(listserv\)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA
  • Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:27:34 -0500

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli AT concordia.ca> wrote:
I hope SJ doesn't mind, but I added his variation to the wiki discussion: http://acawiki.org/AcaWiki:License_change_proposal. I also I added my comment to it: I think this variation would be too confusing and burdensome on reusers--they would have to dig through and interpret history pages to verify the correct license that applies to the current version.

Hi Chitu, thanks for adding it there.  I would prefer to have it as a third distinct option rather than a variant  [if you have a simpler wording, /that/ would be a variant of the third option].  Let's call them "all BY", "all BY-SA", and "default BY, opt-in BY-SA"  (where the opt-in could be triggered by author preference, import from a BY-SA source, &c)

The whole point of BY is to make reuse easier, especially in the far future.  SA bodies of work slowly grow year by year, making everything that touches or interoperates with them SA.  If you want abstracts and summaries in general to be BY - and they will of course build on one another, use the same templates and formats, merge and split - you have to build a primarily-BY repository.  

I see two kinds of reusers:
a) casual reusers who can't be arsed to figure out copyright details, and
b) other archives / scripted knowledge-mining reusers, looking for comprehensive sources for other large-scope projects.

For the first group, the reuse page can start with the sentence
"You can use any material from this site under a BY-SA license."

For the second group, we should generate as much CC-BY material as possible, since that material will be much more broadly reusable in any complex multi-element derivative.  For them, it can say

"Some material is also available for use under CC-BY: for details see <copyrights page>"

To really be a good archive, it would also say
"Some material such as categories and other metadata are available under CC-0; for details see <c. p.>"

SJ



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