A permissions statement or copyright statement on your website or other resource is essential for knowledge sharing. For example, Appropedia's statement is at Appropedia:Copyrights and explains the open license that we use, and the specific terms under which
Bad for knowledge sharing[edit | edit source]
- No statement: If your site or other resource doesn't include a permissions statement, then it is copyright by default.[1]
- Restrictive terms:
- All rights reserved: This makes sense for a corporation, but if you are a non-profit organization aiming to help people, why are you doing this?
- Non-commercial use: Are you worried that someone is going to steal your documentation for an appropriate technology and make money from it? 1. If they did, isn't that a good thing? and 2. With a license such as CC-BY-SA, the other party much attribute you and share alike, so it's good for you and good for the world.
Good for knowledge sharing[edit | edit source]
- Using an open license and labeling it clearly with a mark to enable search engines to index it by license (see [[CC:.
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