On 11/15/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
We do have nice collaboratively written boilerplate messages ...
'Nice', I feel, only compared to the positively evil nature of average legalese. They may have improved since I last looked at them, but they're still necessarily rather hefty blobs of text.
Not sure if we can do anything about that and still cover everything we need to cover, however.
I generally ask for CC-By-SA, myself (figuring it's easier to explain than GFDL), point them towards the creative commons website, and mention that they can't be noncommercial-only or education-only or no-modifications because the license has to be compatible with Wikipedia's license - I leave out the philosophical goals of such, just 'it has to be this way'.
-Matt