Combuster wrote:
Too late. The masses have already decided three years ago with 13 to one vote. I already went ahead to be the dictator and updated the license and copyright page, and consequently fixing the copyright issues that were recently introduced. You folks might want to proofread them.
Besides, the only kind of text I've seen coming from wikipedia is blablabla 1998 blablabla 2004 blablabla better than blablabla profit. Rare occasions aside there is little technical information to source from wikipedia. (And speaking of that, wikipedia should be standard in an initial search query on a subject, we should not need to copy anything)
Neither of the edits you made actually says anything substantiative; i.e. they will not hold up as a statement of license in a court of law.
My personal suggestion would be to declare that all submitted content is
CC0. Making something CC0 is a public domain declaration, except that when such is not possible (E.G. resident citizens of Germany, as in Solar's case), it devolves into a broad grant of all possible rights.
I would also add text like the following to the edit page next to the submit button:
Quote:
By submitting this content, I hereby declare I have read and understand the terms and intended legal effect of
CC0, and hereby voluntarily elect to apply it to this work. I understand that by doing so I hereby waive all copyright and related or neighboring rights together with all associated claims and causes of action with respect to this work to the extent possible under the law.
I would then contact all contributors who can be identified (i.e. did not submit content anonymously) and source their consent to relicense their content. Any content for which authorship can not be established (and where the content was not submitted anonymously), or whereby the author does not give consent or fails to respond, which is not established to be trivial (and therefore not eligible for copyright protection) should be removed. Then we can declare the content of the wiki to be all CC0.
With regards to the above text: It is a trivial reformation of the text that Creative Commons use on their website. However, I provide it on an as-is basis.