[p2p-research] Wiki Content License

[Alex Rollin]

For those who contend that this license does not serve their needs, I
wonder, is it possible that you might write a quick narrative that
shows how this license impinges on your needs?  A few sentences about
a scenario, say?

I write on the wiki with the intention of being able to consult or
implement solutions based on them, and I do this as a means of
enabling my fellows in the network.  I think I just don't know if this
causes a problem with selling 'the Work' as a book (to cover costs,
for example).  Is this the case?  That might, I suppose, be a bad
thing.

If I write on the wiki am I assigning all rights to the Foundation?

What if it is published on my site first?

A

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:53 PM, j.martin.pedersen
<m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 24/06/10 15:32, Samuel Rose wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Michel and all,
>>>
>>> I am concerned about the "Non-Commercial" CC license used for the
>>> content of the P2PFoundation wiki.
>>
>> I don't know what led to the choice of license. But, as far as what
>> the license means, the best source is the legal language of the
>> license itself:
>>
>>
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode
>>
>> Section 4c 4eii and 4eiii in particular seem to clarify what is meant.
>
> There has been a very long consultation process with regard to the NC
> clause.
>
> Here is a summary: http://www.box.net/shared/8idfmfzx7c
>
> Basically, there are no clear-cut subclausaes provided by CC to deal
> with the grey area between letting Rupert Murdoch making money on your
> creation and letting the local anarchist collective sell your creations
> for the upkeep of their social centre. However, many people quite simply
> add their own sub-sub clause:
>
> "You may sell this creation for money, if you are not a big evil
> corporation, but rather a nice, not-for-profit, community building
> project", -- for instance.
>
> That CC did not pick up on this a lot earlier is probably a reflection
> of their tenure track, funding and tech fetish oriented reality, which
> lies far from social struggles in the material realm. See for instance
> for a way into critiques of CC:
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/commons_without_commonality/
>
> -martin
>
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