[lore] Licensing of Murphy's Lore

[Davyd Madeley]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:26:02PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Hello contributors (all contributors have been BCCed this email)
> 
> The next edition of Murphy's Lore is nearly ready for printing!
> However, we've hit a bit of a snag: how to license it. You're
> receiving this mail because you're contributed an article to the
> magazine.
> 
> As contributors you retain your individual copyrights. This means we
> need your agreement before we stick a copyright license on the final
> product. Our options are enumerated below:
> 
> 1) What we'd like:
> 
>   Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia
>   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/
>   Summary: attribution required, non-commercial use only, derived
> works permitted

I think this license is most useful for two reasons. It allows
people to make 'mash-ups' of our work to create other community
driven work. It also implicitly allows translation of the work into
other languages.

Plus, if people want to steal our work, they're going to do it
anyway. We may as well support free culture, something which is very
much an integral part of UCC.

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Davyd Madeley

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