Difference between revisions of "H+Pedia:Proposed licensing"
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This is the most permissive creative commons license, however from a selfish point of point, I would prefer to mandate attribution of content to encourage contributions. As a result, I've decided not to go this far. | This is the most permissive creative commons license, however from a selfish point of point, I would prefer to mandate attribution of content to encourage contributions. As a result, I've decided not to go this far. | ||
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Use of this license I consider less free than the above, in that it discourages commercial transformations. | Use of this license I consider less free than the above, in that it discourages commercial transformations. | ||
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| + | This permits both commercial and non-commercial use of content, so long as attribution is given. This is my preferred option. | ||
== Conclusions == | == Conclusions == | ||
Revision as of 06:44, 7 July 2016
The base copyrights on H+Pedia need to be sorted out. Here are the following options considered:
Considered
No copyright
I don't believe in copyright, or copyleft as these presume permission is needed, something that operates against the very structure of the internet. However, practically speaking, I'm not aware of any boiler-plate statements that encompasses this so this would probably be confusing and unhelpful.
CC0
Aka public domain. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
This is the most permissive creative commons license, however from a selfish point of point, I would prefer to mandate attribution of content to encourage contributions. As a result, I've decided not to go this far.
CC BY-SA 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
As above, except remixes may not be released under a different licenses.
Use of this license I consider less free than the above, in that it discourages commercial transformations.
CC BY 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This permits both commercial and non-commercial use of content, so long as attribution is given. This is my preferred option.
Conclusions
I believe CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum commercial use, whilst ensuring attribution to the original contributors.
