The Cunctator wrote:
On 3/2/06, Steven Ericsson Zenith steven@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.