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  • From: Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com>
  • To: Samuel Klein <meta.sj AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "AcaWiki general \(listserv\)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] Proposal: AcaWiki to BY-SA
  • Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:07:21 -0500

+1 to SJ's proposal. -Jodi

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj AT gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
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.>"

 



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