: 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.
Unfortunately, blanking like that would be considered vandalism... when, for example, wikis leave Wikia, the most they're allowed to do is copy the information... gah, now I feel all guilty for not looking more fully before starting a wiki... but at least having the new Marathon Wikia might get a few more Marathon fans, slightly countering the thinning of Marathon fans over another site.... I mean, Wikia *does* have quite a reasonable Gaming network, such to the extent that they've got staff *just* for that purpose... meh.
