On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Jimmy
Wales wrote:
I think there is universal support for this
proposal, actually this
proposal:
1. Force the user to choose a license
2. Force the user to fill out a field (or more?) indicating the source
3. Write this on the page: {{msg:<NameOfLicense>}}
4. Additionally store the license and source information in a separate
database field
What about {{msg:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided}}, which takes an
"argument" (text following the tag)? Perhaps a text field after the
license choice?
My only concern about this approach is that most people don't
understand anything about copyright. Asking them to choose a license
under those circumstances is like rolling dice. It would be nice if
the license choices were accompanied by a brief outline of the
implications of each choice.
Ec