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Benjamin Webb wrote:
Wikitree is currently voting on a new liscence at http://wikitree.org/index.php? title=WikiTree:License_poll.
So far the consensus seems to be public domain, would this be acceptable for a Wikimedia project?
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").
HTH.
Yours sincerely, - -- James D. Forrester Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] E-Mail : james@jdforrester.org IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester@hotmail.com