The Cunctator wrote:
On 3/2/06, Steven Ericsson Zenith
<steven(a)semeiosis.org> wrote:
Philip is correct. The only way to escape the
GDFL is to rewrite the
entire encyclopedia under a different license - or get every single
contributor to agree to reassign the content. Good luck with that.
The first approach actually seems viable to me - see
http://www.panopedia.org :-)
Why did they choose Attribution-No Derivative Works? What an awful license.
Because it's basically a one-man-band. Oh, sorry, 5-user site, including
one test sockpuppet of the founder.
AFAICT the Panopedia believes very strongly in article ownership; most
obviously because as soon as you edit someone else's article, you create
a derivative work of it (the original author is allowed to do so because
they own full copyright), which violates the CC-BY-ND-2.5 license.
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