[FM Discuss] How can i make a new document license ?

adam hyde adam at flossmanuals.net
Mon Jan 11 08:26:29 PST 2010


hey Narendra,

I think your question would be better put to the CC list:

http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community


adam

On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 04:53 +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote:
> may somebody share his knowledge to know more about creating license
> for wiki.
> May be this is not a suitable forum but I know Adam and other guys who
> has studied CC well (sorry if i am wrong)
> 
> Basically,  I am trying to start a printing facility for wiki type
> book in India ( http://wikipress.in ) , So I like CC-By-SA from heart
> but in my opinion CC is not good license for wiki. infact i am unable
> to find suitable license till date (and GUI too).
> 
> Here are my questions 
> 
> 1) How can I create a new license ?
> 2) is CC-SA is a valid license scheme ?
> 3) If my content is present on web under CC-By-SA then what happen
> after my death ? does it goes under public domain ?
> 4) I do not think 'public domain' really exist. 
> 4.1) If I put some article under public domain, anybody can modify
> small spelling mistake and make a new copyright notice "(c) new
> brother, All right reserved" ! is it true ? 
> 5) I want to have some sort of Viral Licensing scheme which allow user
> to copy/paste/remix without attribution. For example If wikibooks and
> Flossmannual follow this license, then users from wikibook can take
> any portion of text/image and paste/remix/modify at Flossmannuals.
> This is something like creating a "Pool Or Sea" of commons/knowledge.
> So in nutshell, any modification to pool/sea increase its size.
> Because attribution is not recorded at individual level, there will be
> any difficulty to remix. This type of 'zero attribution' scheme is
> most suitable for wiki contents where user add a very little. But
> license has to be copyrighted with somebodies name, we can take a
> centralized name like (c) GOD Or (c) fsf.org etc.
> 
> 
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