So, I've noticed a tendency on CommunityWiki to mark contributions to the wiki as PrimarilyPublicDomain.
I have no particular beef with PPD, but I do find the idea that different people on a wiki can license their contributions in different ways kind of discomforting. I see two problem places:
I guess principally I wonder what the value of personal licenses are for people. I couldn't see myself reusing any content on a wiki that's multiply licensed under strange personal agreements -- could you? The AuthorshipModel in wiki is just too convoluted. I'd love to see a couple of use cases from the people who mark pages or their contributions as PPD.
It also seems to me to be a vote of no confidence in the CommunityWikiLicense, which, let's face it, is pretty complicated to begin with.
Maybe we should move this to "CommunityWikiLicenseDiscussionContinued?," since "CommunityWikiLicenseDiscussion" is getting pretty full.
Or just erase everything on the old CommunityWikiLicenseDiscussion page.
I agree that it's a problem. I wish we were just PPD across the board. I feel that people who are visiting can't decypher whether I wrote the DocumentMode of something I wrote or not. Thus my "Everything I write is PPD" is effectively useless.
I've just accepted this as a cost of my talking here. What I write is basically, for all effective purposes, CC-SA, GFDL, or Meatball. If someone makes a PD wiki, they basically can't copy my text from here.
That said, I don't find the triple licensing of the CommunityWikiLicense to be all that confusing. You can pick between three licenses, CC-SA, GFDL, or Meatball. Seems simple to me.

license describes restriction. "We" strive towards openess and we make good progress doing so. We are moving out of any license. It would be too early to declare commonly that we have no license, that our content is unlicesed and thus open. But we can think about it.
I think he's basically arguing for (in license-talk-language) PPD.
I have heard that there is no real concept of the "PublicDomain" in the legal world. I hve heard that there is talk of officially recognizing a PublicDomain, that people can put their expressions and things into.
If it is not a legally defined territory, I believe we can use it. I believe we can say, "This is PublicDomain."
Our intention is clear, our notions are clear.
I learned that- you can make a contract with your neighbor on a piece of paper. You can say, in PlainTalk, "I'll do X for so-and-so, and so-and-so will do Y for me." You don't actually (legally) have to deal with pesky edge cases. And you don't have to use weird latin to write your contract out. It is a legally binding contract. I don't think that the legal community likes this, but I have heard that this is totally legal.
If the PublicDomain is not well defined, but our intentions are clear, I think we can just do it.
As for an "official" public domain: I remember being at a meeting where people considered starting an initiative to add such a concept to the Swiss constitution (since an initiative can only amend the constitution, not legislate). My friend and I asked them: What would this do, except provide for an "official" license? The primarily public domain license or something along these terms is just as good. In Switzerland, there are some rights you cannot give away using a license (such as the right to not be defamed by derived works and the right to be named the original author), but that wouldn't change with the addition of an official "public domain" to the legal framework.
Thus, adding "public domain" to the legal framework would just make it a tiny bit easier to free your text from all copyright restrictions. PPD is just as good.
Hm... lemme see, what I understand about copyright could be written on the head of a pin. I do know that intuitively, I expect the information I add in here, or absorb here could only be done within a group context, and I want the information to be free for other people to use. I guess I dunno... I copied the PPD quote from Pir and Lion, since they seemed to express ideas that I have agreed with. I didn't understand the license, or what my responsibility was here.
If I didn't write anything on my own page, will it default to the licence on the bottom of every page? That's fine. I just want things to be easy. I naively trust that you have spent more time thinking about this, with more experience than myself.
I didn't mean to make a vote of no-confidence in the CW licence. I'll delete the PPD, since I don't think rocking the boat is what i meant.
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