All, Suppose we grow to Wikipedian size. This is possible, however probable you think it might be.
Suppose, also, that, because we are of that size, we have the participation of a sizable portion of all the leading intellectuals of the world, in every field--and so, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of approved articles. These are all long, complete with many links, bibliography, etc., etc.--all the subpage stuff. It's reference utopia. Here's the question, then. If we use a license that permits commercial reuse--CC-by-sa or GFDL--then every major media company in the world could, and probably would, use CZ content. Would you favor a license that allows CBS, Fox, the New York Times, English tabloids, Chinese propaganda sheets, Yahoo!, Google, and all sorts of giant new media companies to come, to use our content in that case? Without compensation? That's a very interesting question, isn't it? And bear in mind, the question isn't whether you think the situation contemplated is likely or not. That's irrelevant; I'm asking you to consider a *conditional* proposition. What I'm curious about is whether you would favor a commercial-OK license (CC-by-sa or GFDL) *if* such a license would mean that those media companies would make heavy use of our content--without compensation. What do you think? Citizens can discuss here: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1377.0.html Non-Citizens can discuss here (on the blog): http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/11/19/a-fascinating-license-question/ --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
