James D. Forrester <james@...> writes:
No, based on the inability for almost all people in the world to legally contribute based on that licence (many countries have no legal scope for a person to relinquish their work into the public domain, including the EU).
CC-BY is effectively the same, FWIW, and I would counsel the use of that instead. CC-BY 2.5 even allows the crediting of an overall collective organisation in lieu of the individuals (i.e., "this is released under the Creative Commons Attribution licence; please credit WikiTree").
CC-BY does sound like a good option, but would "Copyrighted Free Use" have the same problems as public domain?