[Foundation-l] A license for the Ultimate Wiktionary

Jean-Baptiste Soufron jbsoufron at gmail.com
Fri May 20 15:40:00 UTC 2005


>
> I agree. I would, however, caution against moving too quickly.  
> First, as Jean-Baptiste says, it may be desirable to have a license  
> which is under our own control to develop (put it on a wiki ;-).  
> Second, the license which is the most suitable for wikis, CC-WIKI
>     http://creativecommons.org/drafts/wiki_0.5
> is currently still a draft.
>
> One key advantage of CC-WIKI over CC-BY-SA is that it does not  
> require attribution to any particular person, but to the wiki  
> community (a designated entity). I'm not sure how compatible this  
> is with EU moral rights law, though.

Well it is not compatible with moral rights... and it is not  
compatible with patrimonial rights...

> CC-BY-SA/CC-BY, on the other hand, require attribution to the  
> "original author" only. This, too, might be a problem with moral  
> rights, and it's certainly not very wiki-like to just attribute the  
> first person making an edit.

... It depends...

> I believe that Jimmy is in talks with the Creative Commons people  
> about CC-WIKI. There have also been some attempts to make CC-BY-SA  
> and GFDL compatible to one another. The latter would be desirable  
> for Wikipedia

As being one of the translator of CC for France, I would be happy to  
be put in touch... Jimmy ?



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