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Jim Cheetham wrote:
> In a wiki environment, as I see it, there is no way to guarantee to 
> preserve attribution easily. Changes are logged, but contributors might 
> be anonymous. So the licenses/by* are probably not appropriate ... and I 
> can't see anything like an nc-sa one ...

Full reading of the legalese version of the 2.0 licenses provides :-
 > give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You
 > are utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of
 > the Original Author if supplied

With the emphasis on "if supplied", we start to see the light a little 
bit. That implies that a modification to a wiki page *must not* remove 
any attributions within it, but does not necessarily have to provide an 
attribution itself.

Even more strictly true with by-sa licensing.

I'm not especially happy about that, though, as I didn't to see an 
"aggregate editing/blog" style of wiki, but a free-for-all 
edit-what's-already-there style. Preserving attributions seems to force 
the blog style.

I'll have to track down some CC forums and see what other wiki owners 
think :-)

-jim

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