Forum:Creative commons licences Share a like 2.5

Could people have a look at this link about Creative Commons License How does this sit with GDFL? Are our wikis displayed for commercial benefit. I would appreciate any thoughtsLifeartist 13:34, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * (Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer!) The basic idea of this license is that content released under CC-BY-SA-2.5 may be copied, redistributed, edited, sold, and used in any way so long as the copy or derived work is credited to the author(s) and also released under the CC-BY-SA-2.5 license. It is not compatible with the GFDL -- you can't reuse CC-BY-SA content and only release under GFDL, and you can't take GFDL content and call it CC-BY-SA.
 * If you'd like your work to be available under both licenses on Wikia, you are welcome to "dual-license" it&mdash;release it under both licenses so that people can choose which to use. You could do this for your own work at any time (in fact, you can license your own work under as many different licenses as you want; it belongs to you). If you're starting a new wiki and you want all the content to also be available under CC-BY-SA, you have to either dual-license at the beginning or get everyone who's ever edited to agree to it later!
 * Yes, Wikia wikis are displayed for commercial use (take a look at the Google ads on the side; this is part of how we are able to offer free wiki hosting). Does this help? Mindspillage (spill yours?) 15:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that Mindspillage. It clears up part of my difficulty. I think what I am trying to do in my head is to seperate the commercial motive on your part (which I think is necessary) from the altruistic/ academic motive in our contributors. In acedemia we are used to journal publishers raking it in while we produce scientific papers for the general good with no financial involvement. I am confused as to whether the existence of you financial benefit means that we cant publish here. Any thoughtsLifeartist 17:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)