User talk:El C/Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) -- Hi, my approach is that –Anything– I have written, or will write, on WP (all languages – all wikis) is public public domain; meaning, it can be used by anyone (publicly) so long as there is no profit involved (i.e. Wikitravell is fine, a travel agency is not, etc.). I'm not really sure how that fits with the licensing schemes out there, and perhaps this is something you would care to elaborate on. El_C ---

Image licencing
I'm working on the image tagging project, you haven't specified what kind of licence that you are realeasing you pictures under either. From the comment you made above I would suggest GFDL. When you decide could you please tag the images (of your own) that you've uploaded accordingly. Many thanks --nixie 11:49, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Primarily PD, but there have been some complications. Best of luck to you with the image tagging project. I am sorry I could not be of more assistance El_C - What you describe in User talk:El C/Article Licensing is closest to   which is a copyleft license that requires attribution and can only be use non-commercially. It isn't really compatible with WikiTravel as I was asking, but it is what I think you described, so maybe you want to use that. Later! – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)  02:01, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Interesting, thanks for pointing this out. I will look into that licensing scheme soon. El_C