[Foundation-l] Re: New project licensing

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

Benjamin Webb a écrit :
> James D. Forrester <james at ...> 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.