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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:13:40 JST FediTips has moved!

   Creative Commons fans, which licence should I use for the tips published by this account?

   #CreativeCommons #CC #Copyright #Copyleft #Libre

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:18:44 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Bram

     @bram

     Trying to encourage more Fediverse-related tips sites and hopefully having an explicitly libre licence would help?

     I don't want someone thinking they aren't allowed to republish these.

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     Bram (bram@social.noordstar.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:18:49 JST Bram

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     @feditips@mstdn.social I am kinda curious though, what exactly do you want to license?
     
     Helpful information can't really be licensed, that's free information for everyone anyway.

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     Bram (bram@social.noordstar.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:18:50 JST Bram

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     @feditips@mstdn.social That depends on what you (do not) want people to do with your tips.
     
     The website https://tldrlegal.com/ can help you out. That one explains pretty clearly what each license entails.

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     • Bram

     @bram

     Trying to encourage more Fediverse-related tips sites and hopefully having an explicitly libre licence would help?

     Some of the tips on the website are long bits of text (longer than a toot), so a licence would be helpful.

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     Stemy (stemy@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:24:15 JST Stemy

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     @feditips WTFPL

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     • Allan Haverholm
     • Bram

     @haverholm

     Hmm... ? This could be tricky as some of the tips are stuff people suggested. I can't take credit for that, and as @bram the basic information is public domain anyway.

     Should I just leave it as it is, and informally encourage people to make their own?

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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:24:55 JST Allan Haverholm

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     @feditips CC-BY if you want credit. Add -NC if you want to make sure nobody tries to profit from them. That's the basic ones.

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     • Allan Haverholm
     • Bram

     @bram @haverholm

     Just thinking that some people who are into libre projects might feel happier about re-publishing something which has an explicit libre licence of some kind?

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     Bram (bram@social.noordstar.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:36:20 JST Bram

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     • Allan Haverholm

     @feditips@mstdn.social @haverholm@imaginair.es That would be my advice, yes.
     
     Licenses are informal permissions written in a formal manner. You saying "sure, do whatever" is just as meaningful as a formal license.
     
     The reason most large companies prefer licenses, is because they're more specific on what you can and cannot do. But if your mentality is "do whatever", then it doesn't matter anyway. Individuals will do whatever and large companies will have the lawyers present to tell them they don't NEED your permission. ?

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     • Allan Haverholm
     • Bram

     @bram @haverholm

     I guess I should have made clear, this would cover the tips published on the site which are extended versions of what's on this account. For example:

     https://growyourown.services/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-advanced-tips/#ItsAGoodIdeaToHaveAtLeastSomeFollowers

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     Bram (bram@social.noordstar.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:48:24 JST Bram

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     • Allan Haverholm

     @haverholm@imaginair.es @feditips@mstdn.social
     
     Yeah, exactly.
     
     I mean, if you write an article out of, then you could claim intellectual property on the exact wording - but the content of your article would still be legal to share.

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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:48:25 JST Allan Haverholm

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     • Bram

     @feditips @bram Yeah, seems the question is how much you estimate that you add to the advice you give (contextualising, specifying, presentation...).

     Since the information itself is essentially public already, that's the part that you can claim — or abandon — "rights" to with a license.

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     • Allan Haverholm
     • Bram

     @haverholm @bram

     So, this might be a good reason to have a Sharealike clause? To prevent anyone claiming they have copyright?

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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:49:40 JST Allan Haverholm

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     • Bram

     @bram @feditips Yeah, my frame of reference is when book publishers cash in on publishing authors from the PD. They're just trademarking their own edition (basically the book layout), and avoid having to pay royalties.

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     • Bram

     @bram @haverholm

     That's the attribution clause though?

     I mean sharealike as in they have to use CC licence too?

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     Bram (bram@social.noordstar.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 23:57:02 JST Bram

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     • Allan Haverholm

     @feditips@mstdn.social @haverholm@imaginair.es
     
     That's up to you.
     
     I don't think it's likely that someone will take your tips, then share them but also forbid anyone else from sharing them AND make sure no-one knows you're sharing them too. ? The credit clause is mostly used by people who want recognition for the work.