Perhaps a way forward: Modify the editing screen on the wiki with licensing options. Specify the license you would prefer to have people use as the default. Give options to select other popular licenses or to specify a license that isn't in the small set of licenses listed with check boxes. Write a routine that will display notice of the relevant license along with the content added. Programmatically disallow the submission of content without a license selection.
But I looked at the issue of wikis and licensing hard about a year ago or so. Any license that requires attribution is problematic if a wiki enables any automated way to exporting content, e.g., XML-RPC, RSS feeds, mirroring, etc. The problem is that on the original wiki, attribution can be found by clicking through the page's versions. It's arguable whether that constitutes a "notice" as required by most licenses to begin with. But none of the popular methods of syndicating content export anything beyond the most recent page version, so the notice of attribution for the page's contributors disappears. So the export of the content, which necessitates copying of the content, is a copyright violation pure and simple. The Creative Commons Non-Attribution 1.0 license is the only major license I ever found that was appropriate for a wiki with multiple page editors, short of just placing all of the content in the public domain. I have no good work-around for that problem. It's a situation of technology leapfrogging the law. I suspect that ultimately, it will be the law that has to bend to reality rather than vice versa. Best regards, Marbux --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
