Actually, you raise a good point. I think that the license we choose should not be optional and should apply sitewide.

Someone could otherwise create content and then place it under a restrictive license, under which circumstances eglug would implicitly be forced to support this by hosting it.

-- Panem et *burp* circenses

by default licensing sounds like a good idea to me, and off course it should be a Free/Open license.

however I think it will be difficult to agree on whether to use a copyleft license or not.

there are situations when I think we should absolutly not use a copyleft license, like for instance if we make a press release or a press kit, you want people to reuse that in any possible way.

on the other hand if I spend time writing a long document I would only want it published with a copyleft license, if copyleft is not an option then my non casual content would probably end up on my website and only links will be posted to eglug.

so how about we give people a choice of two licenses, one copyleft and one not, with one of them being default.

or even better, the choice would only be available to articles and wikipages but not to comments, forum posts or news items?

tab3an there is a whole other problem which is derivative work, translated material for instance has to abide by the original license, we need to make sure that correct license info is published and not just stick our own default.

cheers, Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

like here

...Create a taxonomy called "License" and create a term for each license you have. The taxonomy description could be a short description of the license (think Creative Commons) and a link to the full legal license (again, think Creative Commons). Than whenever you post a work, select the license it goes under.

so we got several selectable cc licenses for everything and the default one is the site wide agreed upon license.

its the decision on which licenses to use that is a problem.

cheers, Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

well i think in blog spaces, seniors can select any of the creative commons choices.

outside blogs its a single (by-sa*) license. May be a (by) only license occasionally for stuff that we might want to be consumed by the media like our about page, faq, press kit etc..

• by == attribution
• sa == share alike