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[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 14:56 +0000, ms wrote:
> On 10/12/10 09:37, Francesco Principe wrote:
> > Simply because we want to obtain a different results from those you
> > mentioned and because we have behind a very large community of users
> > already active.
> > www.linuxexpertproject.com is a very ambitious and very articulate project.
> 
> Hmm. I've seen it now and I just joined the Linkedin group. Yet I'm 
> still perplexed. Here are a few points:
> 
> - *What* is the different result you want to obtain?
> 
> - The CC-BY-NC-ND licence makes it impossible to share stuff with other 
> wikis to build upon. CC-BY-NC-SA would be a much better option; CC-BY-SA 
> would also allow to freely exchange with Wikimedia projects, which would 
> be a definite plus.
> 
> - It's especially weird from a copyright point of view to have a "no 
> derivatives" license on a wiki: technically every new revision of an 
> article is a derivative of the preceding revision, and therefore 
> violates copyright.
> 
> - A collaborative wiki on an URL with a personal name doesn't sound 
> good, since it would look like, to a first glance, that all content in 
> the wiki is yours, and not of collaborators (imagine if Wikipedia was 
> hosted at www.jimmywales.com) . Taking time to register another domain 
> would help.

I wouldn't waste my time on a wiki hosted by a top-poster, either. 
 :) Ric


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