Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@jeltsch.net> writes:
Thinking about the subject matter is hard enough, thinking about creating licensing pitfalls is best left to lawyers and other parasi^W specialists.
The problem is that lawyers are thinking about pitfalls for you to fall into. Discussing licensing for a community effort like a wiki may seem a pedantic excercise bordering on the absurd, but it might avoid trouble later.
or should we allow people to add notices to pages for other licenses?
Maybe we should start with forcing everything on the wiki to be licensed under a permissive license.
The problem with allowing multiple licensing is that it can quickly get muddled as things get copied around. I would prefer a single (very permissive) license covering the whole wiki, and linking out to a different site for differently licensed material. (The license should encourage, and possibly require, attribution to the wiki rather than individual authors - I think it is important to de-emphasize individual ownership as much as possible - cf. previous discussions) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants