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Why no sharealike?

So this is something I'd like to understand. As stated on this main project page, Mises Wiki content is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license while Wikipedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

Now. The only difference between these two is that the latter requires any derivative works to be distributed under the same or a similar license. In other words, the content itself is freely copyable, distributable, and adaptable, but any new work created using it must also be made freely copyable, distributable, and adaptable. That's the whole point of the "share alike" provision.

This means that in the case of the Mises Wiki (as it does not have this provision), the content itself is freely copyable, distributable, and adaptable, but any derivative work made using this content falls under normal copyright law...meaning that anything anyone makes using content from our Mises Wiki, they have an intellectual monopoly on, and all they have to do is attribute the base work.

My question is, why in the world would we allow this? --John James 05:42, 10 May 2011 (MSD)

This reflects the position of the Mises Institute: to make all works as free as possible. "Share-Alike," even though it ostensibly encourages freedom, is nonetheless a restriction on freedom. This was discussed in the early days of the wiki, in the google group (see the email on November 9, 2010). Stephan Kinsella is the one you'd need to convince, I suspect, to get this changed. --Forgottenman (talk) 06:17, 10 May 2011 (MSD)

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	My question is, why in the world would we allow this? --[[User:John James\|John James]] 05:42, 10 May 2011 (MSD)		My question is, why in the world would we allow this? --[[User:John James\|John James]] 05:42, 10 May 2011 (MSD)

			:This reflects the position of the Mises Institute: to make all works as free as possible. "Share-Alike," even though it ostensibly encourages freedom, is nonetheless a restriction on freedom. This was discussed in the early days of the wiki, in the google group (see the email on November 9, 2010). [[Stephan Kinsella]] is the one you'd need to convince, I suspect, to get this changed. --[[User:Forgottenman\|Forgottenman]] ([[User talk:Forgottenman\|talk]]) 06:17, 10 May 2011 (MSD)