Gregory Maxwell:
I don't
feel that the draft license at
<http://creativecommons.org/drafts/wiki_0.5> which has the requirement
to attribute the original site gives that site any special rights. It
isn't actually a new license, but a re-branded version of the cc-by-sa
with the only major difference being that the wiki is attributed
rather than the authors.
This is a substantial change, I'm quite aware of the license and what it is...
I disagree very strongly with the nature of the altered attribution.
Your disagreement doesn't make a lot of sense to me. There is no
"special right" inherent in saying "This article was originally written
by members of the Wikipedia community", and it does not preclude anyone
from forking. It is a historical statement that is much more practical
than "This article was written by these 250 people:...", or much more
wiki-like than "This article was originally started by Erik" (as CC-BY
would require).
I strongly support the CC-WIKI license. It is the most practical
solution to the attribution problem. If you're worried about forking
being difficult, then you haven't read the GFDL very carefully, as it is
probably the most forking-unfriendly license there is in the field of
free content.
Erik