[Foundation-l] Citizendium License (Was: [EWW] EditWikipediaWeek)

[Brian McNeil]

Multilicensing where authors select the license they wish is - in my opinion
- a bad idea for a wiki. Wiki is designed with the purpose of allowing
multiple contributors, and if you allow contributor A to say his stuff is
-CC-NC and contributor B to say his stuff is CC-BY-SA, then you have - for a
site like wikibooks - a book nobody will touch with a ten foot pole.
Google's response will be, "we have no easy way to figure the license", not
to be included in our list of reusable stuff... Gee you've loads of these,
better not list the site at all."

We've had one instance of this where a contributor insists he wishes his
contributions released under PD. Other people have rewritten parts of his
articles to bring it back under CC-BY, and many - like myself - will not
touch articles he starts with his PD template on them. Multiple licenses can
be grounds for a lack of cooperation between people with different
philosophical outlooks.


Brian McNeil

-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of teun spaans
Sent: 21 November 2007 13:20
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Citizendium License (Was: [EWW]
EditWikipediaWeek)

You dont need a special date - you might even have a multilicense situation
where the authors of each book select the public license under which they
would like to publish their book. Book A might be under GFDL, while book B
can be under CC-BY-SA, and book C could be under CC-NC. The main problem
arises when authors would like to reuse material which has been published by
someone else under another licnese.

2007/11/21, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>:
>
> The license change that was carried out to take Wikinews to CC-BY-2.5 was
> only possible because we aren't continually updating articles. Articles
> are
> published on Wikinews and become fixed shortly thereafter. In a case like
> that you can have a cut-off and changeover, which we did.
>
> Were you, for example, to want to go that way with Wikibooks you'd need to
> say, okay cut-off is <date-A>, and every book started before that gets a
> template added saying it was started before <date-A>, thus remains under
> the
> GFDL.
>
> I can't see any way to do that on Wikipedia where virtually every article
> is
> treated as a work in progress.
>
>
> Brian McNeil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Florence
> Devouard
> Sent: 21 November 2007 12:56
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Citizendium License (Was: [EWW] Edit
> WikipediaWeek)
>
> Andrew Gray wrote:
> > On 21/11/2007, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Whilst I see pretty well that getting the "ok" of all participants to a
> >> Wikipedia article might be asking for trouble, why would projects such
> >> as Wikibooks or Wikiversity not propose the dual license beginning
> today
> ?
> >>
> >> When a book is started today by a new group, or when a book had only a
> >> limited number of authors, this issue is not an issue. Why restricting
> >> to GFDL license only these projects ?
> >
> > It's been done, in fact - Wikinews is under some form of CC license. :-)
> >
>
> Nod. And I remember that some were complaining at that time that it
> would cause compatibility issues between wikinews and wikipedia.
> How much were both projects impacted by this situation ?
>
> Ant
>
>
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