On 16/01/2008, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/01/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
So is it useful for us to add CC0 as a licence option equivalent to our "public domain or equivalent" (where, if public domain release is not possible, the work is licenced for use by anyone for any purpose)?
No since we have zero interest in promoting CC branding of free material.
Hm, do we also have no interest in providing better (or even any) machine readability for our content?
We have various mechanisms for doing that within our existing systems. Machine readability may not be great but is getting better.
Treating everything that comes out of CC like poison is as unuseful as treating everything that comes out of CC like gold. The question is: what would the benefits for Commons be? And I see the answer as better machine readability and the general benefits that eventually come from standardisation. Not tomorrow, but if in a few years people go "oh yeah, CC-0, I'm familiar with that from X,Y & Z other sites" then... everyone benefits.
A few years? In that kind of time frame we could have people talking about {{PD-self}} and our own machine readable system.