[Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

[Bod Notbod]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, <wiki-lists at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> That's easily answered.
>>
>> I'm not "renaming the license". I'm proposing that there be a tick box
>> for that very same license with a more friendly tag that tells the
>> user "can be used on Wikipedia". The license doesn't change, it's just
>> the way it's communicated.
>>
>> I love and support the Creative Commons licenses, but they can present
>> you with a lot of reading. A decision that says "can be used on
>> Wikipedia" would be much more immediate.
>>
>
> It is also very misleading. Whilst many people would love to have their
> work on wikipedia they might not want it used by Microsoft, News
> International, Ford, Walmart, the Meat Marketing Board, or etc. So if
> you feel that people need to be educated into using a license compatible
> with wikipedia, you really do need to spell it out for them that they
> are also making available to all those others too.

That's a very fair comment.

Is it possible to keep my proposal intact and address those issues?