Item 10 from [[CZ:We aren't Wikipedia]]:
Contributors share their copyright with us. Contributors give to the Citizendium Foundation a non-exclusive right to relicense their work. This allows the Citizendium Foundation to be the sole entity that licenses the entire Citizendium corpus.As was discussed in the recent licensing mega-thread, CZ is considering licensing its content CC-BY-NC-SA for free, and some more permissive license for money. This arrangement is somewhat unusual, so I think we should make this clear in the [[CZ:We aren't Wikipedia]] and [[CZ:Fundamentals]]. How about phrasing it something like this:
- Contributors share their copyright with us. Contributors give the Citizendium Foundation a non-exclusive right to relicense their work. This allows the Citizendium Foundation to be the sole entity that licenses the entire Citizendium corpus.
- Citizendium articles are licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-by-nc-sa) license. Articles which contain content copied from Wikipedia or other GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) or Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-by-sa) licensed content are licensed under CC-by-sa. In the future, Citizendium may also sell licenses to articles written solely within Citizendium to commercial entities which wish to use them.
By the way, I still would prefer that we followed the Free Software Foundation's example and promised to use our copyright only for enforcement and license tweaking, not for licensing the content in return for money. However, that's a topic for the licensing mega-thread; please limit discussion in this thread to how we would document the decision to sell licenses, if we were to do that. I believe this side issue merits discussion because we should only plan to sell licenses if we can document that plan clearly without scaring off authors.
