License and legal concern about the W3C wiki content

Hi,

I make a new post thread to talk about those legal stuffs.

To resume my position : I think CC
BY-BC-SA<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/>are a bad
license for a wiki. The attribution constrain is to hard for such
a content, especially educational content. USA and UK have legal agreement
(such as « Fair use ») to not have to worried about it. But France and some
other countries do not have such an agreement.

To be perfectly clear, I don't care. The spirit behind that content is very
clear : « Use it to spread the world about Web standards ». It's fine with
me... but we all know that the Internet is full of jerk. In the current
legal state, if a single moron make a change on the wiki content under CC,
he can lock the content down.

Now, to answer Karl, I suggest two things here :

   1. If possible, turn any CC content into a CC0 "Public Domain" content.
   FWIW I think it's the most appropriate license term for such a content.
   2. If it's not possible, add some precision about what "attribution"
   means on the W3C wiki. It's the way Wikipedia deal with this concern and
   even if I'm not convince it's enough, at least, it prevent from any stupid
   legal abuse.

Now to conclude, as I said, this will change nothing to me, but I think it's
a concern for the W3C. IMHO If this wiki become more and more publicly
known, this concern will grow fast.

Cheers
Jérémie

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From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
Date: 2011/7/31
Subject: Re: WSC update - introductory article edited.
To: Jeremie Patonnier <jeremie.patonnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>, "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <
public-evangelist@w3.org>



Le 30 juil. 2011 à 18:20, Jeremie Patonnier a écrit :
> I'm pretty sure we will never have to be worry about that

so maybe we should not start worry about it. ;)

> but I think there is some legal concern here anyway.

What would you propose for a license that would address those concerns.

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