We are definitely undecided (about the license)
A few days ago I said on the project mailing list that we would be deciding very soon about the license, and that I was leaning toward using CC-by-nc for our own original articles, and the GFDL for all Wikipdia-sourced articles. This was reflected in the comparison between CZ and WP that I posted yesterday.
Well, this has created some strong reactions–finally–and perhaps now the CZ community is ready to have a debate it has badly needed to have. The license issue is important, because it will determine whether Wikipedia can use content that we create, because it might help set us up in an interesting new open content business model, and quite frankly because a lot of people just care a lot about this stuff. One person has even said that he would delete all his edits from the wiki if we were to use a certain license.
Anyway, while the discussion is hot and heavy on the forums (between project participants–because forums are restricted to participants), I hope I can motivate people to use the wiki to sum up and standardize the arguments on the question: “Should we permit or disallow commercial use of CZ-originated articles?“
CC-BY-NC sounds good with me.
Comment by Melanie St. Clair — March 27, 2007 @ 12:40 pm