... and this post, too.

Because it's my first posting to a blog without knowing, where I actually want to go.

Today I wanted to change the license of the http://amette.bergwerk-medien.de wiki and couldn't do it. The critical input for my change of mind was the first comment on Lessig's blog entry about the advent of a Creative Commons Wiki-license. I really do dislike the diversification of OSI-approved licenses. Directly after reading it I was just slammed to the mental ground! It released such a storm of different thoughts, that I'm not able to recall even one at the moment.

Licensing is 'pretty' easy, when you know, where you're going. But http://amette.bergwerk-medien.de's wiki hasn't got a mission, not even an initial set of pages that could show a direction. So ANY license could cripple further evolution.

The artistic license would have been a good choice or why not the 'Fair License'. It's that simple and short, that I can quote it here:

Usage of the works is permitted provided that this instrument is retained with the works, so that any entity that uses the works is notified of this instrument.
DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.

2004, Fair License: rhid.com/fair

I intentionally opted out of looking up a license out of the OSI-ones I liked, just because of me disliking the fact of diversification of licenses. I decided to go with a creative commons one and chose a, like I thought, fair trade off. But now I'm standing here even less than as clever as before. I even think of changing the license to a pure ShareAlike-one, that's the only attribute I can definately say of that I do really care about! And while writing the last sentence I looked up the Creative Commons for a link to such a license.
Hmmm, now, that's interesting!!
It's only available in version 1.0. Since they went to 2.0 every single license includes the Attribution-tag. No other way to go with a current license! (I knew there was something, that drew me into using an Attribution-one!).

Ok, so there's some more to investigate and think of, I think I'll close this post now.

Bye and try to sleep better, than I will!

Just realized, that I got absolutely no clue, where to post this, so I'll "soft-cross-post".

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