On 6/6/07, Gabe Johnson gjzilla@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
As is, the requirement to attribute individual edits is at odds with the general concept of collective editing on a wiki.
Is there any reason why everything in WP can be put in the PD, with of course the material that is only fair use indicated? (Essentially the way the US government does it: everything in their publications is PD, unless previously copyright elsewhere.) The difference would be that others could use it without attribution to us, and we wouldn't get the publicity--but are we in it for publicity or to make an encyclopedia? DGG
Any derivations could be made proprietary if we put it into the public domain. ~~~~~
Though since we allow uses like answers.com the GFDL isn't really that helpful in that guise. But it does guarantee some form of crediting.