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?
Said like this, yes.
We are now trying to write a proper and simple license for Wikinews.
Have a look if you want to get ideas.