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Re: [cc-licenses] Citizendium project requests advice on licenses

From: Jaroslaw Lipszyc <jl AT creativecommons.pl>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Citizendium project requests advice on licenses
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:52:13 +0100

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

[cc-licenses] Citizendium project requests advice on licenses, Tim Chambers, 01/20/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] Citizendium project requests advice on licenses, Jaroslaw Lipszyc, 01/20/2007