Category talk:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License

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[edit] More progress

I think its not enough just for people to choose to dual license their stuff with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0, but it should be an offical license for all new works along with the GFDL starting soon.

Another advancement might be the ability to have a little tag occur beside the person's name in history so people can see what content is released under the CC-BY-SA 2.0 . --ShaunMacPherson 22:38, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Actually despite all the work getting people to sign onto this license, Wikipedia can never fully or officially dual-license all of its stuff. See Wikipedia:Multi-licensing for more information. Part of the problem is that this can't be done automatically. Even though I license all my eligible edits under the CC-BY-SA 2.0, if I copy text from one wikipedia page to another, that copy is most likely only covered under the GFDL, and I am not able to relicense it. The software has no way of knowing this. You can't make it official because then you would have articles within Wikipedia that would be incompatible with each other. Its a complicated issue. The reason we individually dual-license is so that it is at least possible to use certain Wikipedia articles under the alternate license for other projects using the CC license. It may be somewhat hard to do, and it usually can't be done automatically, but it is better than nothing. Hope this rough overview helps! -- Ram-Man 22:59, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

It can be done automatically using a metalicense. I have more information below that I copied here from a post to your talk page (incase anyone wandered here and was interested in this issue).

Newsforge had an interesting article on how to 'metalicense' a work so it is covered by multiple licenses. If we could have Wikipedia licensed under both the GNU FDL and a CC license I believe it would encourage people who have reservations about the GNU FDL's flaws to come aboard.

The author of this article also has a webpage up, released under a CC license in case you'd like to share it, here about metalicensing which goes into greater detail than the Newsforge article. --ShaunMacPherson 04:55, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)