[Foundation-l] Re: New project licensing

Wed Sep 7 14:49:30 UTC 2005

James D. Forrester <james at ...> writes:

> 
> No, based on the inability for almost all people in the world to legally
> contribute based on that licence (many countries have no legal scope for
> a person to relinquish their work into the public domain, including the EU).
> 
> CC-BY is effectively the same, FWIW, and I would counsel the use of that
> instead. CC-BY 2.5 even allows the crediting of an overall collective
> organisation in lieu of the individuals (i.e., "this is released under
> the Creative Commons Attribution licence; please credit WikiTree").
> 

CC-BY does sound like a good option, but would "Copyrighted Free Use" have the 
same problems as public domain?