Creative Commons fans, which licence should I use for the tips published by this account?
@feditips CC-BY if you want credit. Add -NC if you want to make sure nobody tries to profit from them. That's the basic ones.
Hmm...
Should I just leave it as it is, and informally encourage people to make their own?
@haverholm@imaginair.es @feditips@mstdn.social
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, if you write an article out of, then you could claim intellectual property on the exact wording - but the content of your article would still be legal to share.
So, this might be a good reason to have a Sharealike clause? To prevent anyone claiming they have copyright?
@feditips@mstdn.social @haverholm@imaginair.es
That's up to you.
I don't think it's likely that someone will take your tips, then share them but also forbid anyone else from sharing them AND make sure no-one knows you're sharing them too.
That's the attribution clause though?
I mean sharealike as in they have to use CC licence too?
@feditips@mstdn.social @haverholm@imaginair.es
Oh, I misunderstood.
You can use that, but consider it no guarantee since it's already questionable whether the tips are licensable at all.
Thinking of something like this:
"Basic instructions are public domain, any copyright which may exist for my texts is licensed under CC-By-SA"
...or something along those lines?
Just something so that anyone wanting to use it in a libre project knows they have permission even without rephrasing.
@feditips @haverholm @bram I personally feel like ShareAlike is almost always a good choice, because it means people can't copy-paste your work without making it also freely available, which is in my opinion one of the most important parts of copyleft.
If someone really wants to have a different copyright situation they can always just rewrite the tips anyway, since knowledge of how to use the platform is definitionally not copyrightable.
@feditips @haverholm @bram as for other people's contributions:, knowledge is uncopyrightable ("Copyright protection extends to expressions and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such", 1996 WIPO copyright treaty), meaning you can always rewrite someone's tip and publish it, and the need for credit will only be moral, not legal.
You can also just ask people for permission when you want keep the exact phrasing.
Yup, that seems sensible
@feditips@mstdn.social @Yuvalne@433.world @haverholm@imaginair.es
I'm actually starting a Fediverse instance that highlights information and changes on such rules & rights at for.digital-justice.com
It's not finished yet, but I'd love to have that put on the FediFollows list in the future.