I feel strongly that this is a bad way to go. While I support Creative Commons licensing in general, making it a requirement may prohibit many of us from being able to fully participate.
As an example, when I have published articles for academic journals, I have been required to hand over certain rights to the academic journals. Requiring Creative Commons licensing would mean that I could not contribute my articles to the site. Friends of mine are journalists, and I am concerned about them being likewise restricted in what they can contribute. When it comes to graphics design, I believe there are similar issues. This was recently discussed in comments in the blogforamerica, but I don't know the details. I like the proposal that I believe AMStanton suggested during the IRC meeteing that we default to Creative Commons licensing, and personally, I like the Attribution-ShareAlike License best, but that we allow users to opt-out. MHO Aldon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of zrosen Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hackers] How should we be enforcing Creative Commons liscenses? My choice is to require all people who sign up using our code to concede all rights to their material to a Creative Commons share alike attribution liscense. (or they we could give htem a couple other options for different CC liscenses). What do you guys thing? List other scenarios on the wikki and bring it to the list. http://www.hack4dean.org/phpwiki/index.php?CreativeCommonsControl -Zack
