User:Stephen Ewen/Scratch Pad7

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The tension is between social production and the profit motive. Volunteer labor means something very different in the context of a community than it does in the context of a business. In the context of a community, it's an expression of fellowship, of the communal value of sharing. But in the context of a business...it's nothing more than a cheap input. Many of the most eloquent advocates of social production would prefer it if this tension didn't exist. But it does, and it's important.

Commercial usage: the good, the bad, and the ugly

What licensing option will best enable CZ to permit the flourishing of the kinds of commercial usages few would take issue with while disallowing the other sorts? CC-by-sa prevents

Stewardship is the key

On on hand, with the introduction of subpages plus our own further creativity, it is hard to see how web-mirrors could add much to a well-developed CZ corpus. On the other, we cannot see every possibility; maybe someone will develop a fantastic idea.

Another illustration of the same principle is Answers.com, a commercial Wikipedia mirror, whose parent company pays for one of Wikimedia's developers, and has also been one of the sponsors of Wikimedia's 2005 conference, Wikimania. None of this is required by the license.

I don't find satisfying my colleague Mike Johnson's argument that incompatibility issues between the GFDL and CC-by-sa will stave-off the cannibalizing of Citizendium original articles by Wikipedia. One, it is not clear that the GFDL and CC-by-sa are currently incompatible--are not compatible enough to allow copying over. Anyone who tries to add content to any Wikipedia article is greeted with the large emboldened text,

"Do not copy text from other websites without a GFDL-compatible license.

To solve this problem, you could specify that the work falls back to a more permissive license such as CC-BY

You may: Include text licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) if proper credit is given at the footer of the wiki page. No other Creative Commons license is compatible with GFDL. text.[1]

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