When the Transformers Wiki was deciding to relicense its content under the Creative Commons, we spent a lot of time discussing it. I mean-an insane amount of time. The GFDL’s relicensing option offered a single up-or-down choice; stay with GFDL or switch to Creative Commons. Why bother?

Well, because the community is concerned about potential ( Read more... )

I’m a Transformers fan. For the last few years I’ve been active on the Transformers Wiki. And the TFWiki is currently debating whether or not to migrate our site-wide licensing from GFDL to CC-BY-SA3. Essentially a platform change in our site’s underlying “legalese” from Linux to Mac.

Sounds boring, right?

The complete meltdown of Western ( Read more... )