Citizendium project requests advice on licenses

Hi, I just joined the list tonight and am diving right in.

I sparked a discussion in the Citizendium community about
which license
to use. (Citizendium -- CZ for short -- is Larry Sanger's
"fork" of
Wikipedia.) Can someone from the CC community help us
understand whether
it's important to start off with a CC license (we're leaning
toward the
cc-nc), or to follow Wikipedia's lead and use the GFDL? See
http://f
orum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,431.msg3627.html#ms
g3627

If you'd rather discuss here instead of joing the CZ forum,
I
understand. In that case I'll serve as liaison to summarize
your input
for the CZ community.

<>< Tim Chambers
http:/
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Chambers

P.S. I looked through the last three months' archives and
this seems to
be the right list, but no discussion seemed relevant to the
CZ issue.
But if there's a CC list better suited to my question,
please tell me
which one.

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Tim Chambers napisał(a):
> Citizendium -- CZ for short -- is Larry Sanger's
"fork" of
> Wikipedia.) Can someone from the CC community help us
understand whether
> it's important to start off with a CC license (we're
leaning toward the
> cc-nc), or to follow Wikipedia's lead and use the GFDL?

I understand, that if Citizendium is a Wikipedia fork you
are obliged by 
the GFDL license to keep it. CC BY-SA is not GFDL compatible
and you 
cannot relicense works without explicit agreement from all
contributors. 
And that seems impossible to do...
If you - as topic on forum suggests - start from blank, it's
another 
issue. However, keeping license compatibility with Wikipedia
will allow 
other people to remix and combine your work in a possibly
very creative 
ways. CC BY-SA may be a better license, but i believe right
now 
compatibility is a much more desired feature and will bring
much more 
opportunities to the people.
I see you discuss using NC license. Please, keep in mind
that NC license 
is very prohibitive and will greatly reduce usefullnesss of
your work 
(no pressing Citizendium on CD and throwing it as an add-on
for magazine 
etc.)
greetings
Jaroslaw Lipszyc
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