Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>]

On Wed, 2005-05-10 at 18:24 +0530, Holger Dieterich wrote:
> Wiki-style content is often edited by a lot of users.
Yes.
> Say I would run a Wiki system on my server and licence all content with
> CC-BY (Creative Commons, Attribution).
OK.
> I now want to publish one wiki article in a newspaper. Do I have to name ALL
> contributors, even if the article has been changed by dozens of users?
Yes, unless you've gotten the contributors to let you use the name of the wiki (or some other name) instead of their own. This is only an option with the 2.5 licenses; see the attribution section of the legal text.
> Or is
> the last one enough?
No.
> Is there a licence where I don't have to name the
> authors?
Not in the 2.5 suite, but the 1.0 suite had quite a few.
~Evan