Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "TUG" == Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller <sloyment AT gmx.net> writes:

    TUG> The problem I see here is that Evan is not the copyright
    TUG> holder, but the various contributors. So, in order to change
    TUG> the license, he would have to ask all contributors, which is
    TUG> quite impossible, because most of them are anonymous.

Thomas,

The question of dual licensing has only come up in terms of works with
single authors. I've written a little bit of documentation on dual
licensing here:

          http://www.wikitravel.org/article/Wikitravel:Dual_licensing

It's been nothing but a hassle, and I hope that a change to the *-SA-*
licences will make it go away for good.

    TUG> However, large parts seem to be imported from the CIA
    TUG> factbook (PD?), and most of the edits seem to be only minor
    TUG> edits (additions of single words or short sentences) that can
    TUG> hardly be copyrighted.

I have to protest at this. You give our project extremely short
shrift, and I suggest you take another look at the site. Many of the
articles for countries were in fact based on CIA factbook information,
but those are a minority. We have 700+ guides right now, covering
cities, regions, and countries around the globe.

~ESP

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