: but you're right, f***ing copyrights is the best thing to do, which is why
: I'll still edit Pfhorpedia rather than letting it fall into disrepair
: (Wikia's policies prevent it from being deleted)... but I might still edit
: Traxus a little bit too, though. ^^ meh...
Using a copyleft license isn't exactly the way to say "fuck copyrights" thought, since it still relies on copyright law for all its enforceability, i.e. it depends on the government being there saying "you can't do that!" at gunpoint in order to come in and say "no no, it's OK, I don't mind, so long as they...", followed by stipulations (without the satisfaction of which, it's back to the gunpoint). In the absence of copyright law there could be no such stipulations or at least, they'd be unenforceable. The only truly free license is a public domain license. Consider: public domain material may legally be incorporated into a copyleft project, but not vice versa. Which material is really more free?
But I think the bigger concernis just that our community is spread very thin as it is, and dividing it up amongst multiple redundant projects seems like a bad idea. If Traxus further clarified their copyright policy to your satisfaction, would you consider consolidating your efforts with them? Although if you are unable to actually close shop on the Wikia site as you say, because of their policies, it may be a moot point; as the concern is not so much losing your particular contributions, as it is there existing a rival project to draw the attention of other potential editors away. Would it be within Wikia's policies to blank all the pages of a site and say "this site is defunct now, please see here" with a link elsewhere? Others could of course always come along and un-blank those pages and read the revision history, but it would circumvent the problem of splitting up new users, as those who found the one wiki would be pointed at the other and they'd all wind up at the same place.
