In the shade of Eldred we decided to try something new. We're going CC!
More below.
What is the best license for open content - if you want your readers to participate and more or less do anything with the content, as long as they do not violate on other readers' rights? We (Gnuheter) tried a Creative Commons approach, but it would be interesting to learn of other initiatives and strategies.
Regards,
Mikael
Leading Swedish Free Software Forum chooses Creative Commons License
Gnuheter is - starting today - distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-license.
Gnuheter is the leading Swedish open source and free software forum, providing information, news, gossip and discussions in a Slashdot.org style.
Systems engineer Patrik Wallstrom and lawyer Mikael Pawlo founded Gnuheter in year 2000. Gnuheter was distributed "copyleft" from the start. Some users complained that the license was ambiguous. Gnuheter's editors have always wanted the content to be as open as possible and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-license helps Gnuheter maintain the balance between openness and the Swedish copyright law's moral and distribution rights.
Gnuheter has some 64,000 visitors a month.
The key license terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-license are:
1. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees must give the original author credit.
2. The licensor permits others to distribute derivative works under a license identical to the one that governs the licensor's work.
Try:
http://www.gnuheter.com/
and
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0
