Forum:Relicensing of content

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Right, so this new wiki uses the Creative Commons license. It's important that everyone knows this is a change from Wikia's GFDL and is fine with it, so if anyone has any objections, speak now or forever hold your peace. Following is the part of the GFDL license under which we can legally change to GFDL:

11. RELICENSING

"Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site" (or "MMC Site") means any World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works. A public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server. A "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration" (or "MMC") contained in the site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC site.

"CC-BY-SA" means the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license published by Creative Commons Corporation, a not-for-profit corporation with a principal place of business in San Francisco, California, as well as future copyleft versions of that license published by that same organization.

"Incorporate" means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or in part, as part of another Document.

An MMC is "eligible for relicensing" if it is licensed under this License, and if all works that were first published under this License somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole or in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections, and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.

The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009, provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.

The fundamental difference between the Creative Commons and GFDL licenses is that CC gives you, the writer, more say on what happens with your work. For this reason, we hope this relicensing is a change for the better and the Copyrights page will soon be updated to reflect this. -- Hindleyak  Converse • ?blog • Click here! 13:30, 13 Novelniver 2008 (UTC)

Yes, two main reasons for switching to the CC licence over the GFDL, one as hindleyite mentioned, is that the writer has more protection over what is done with the content, But there is also another reason i think Hindleyite neglected, and that is that the CC licence is much clearer than the GFDL licence. You can easily see what is going on, Its a much more transparent agreement to both the end user, and anyone who wishes to use the content.--Silent PenguinLeave Me Alone 13:52, 13 Novelniver 2008 (UTC)