Blooncyclopedia talk:Copyrights

Why is this wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License? It supports copyright hassles and is incompatible with much free material.

I want to know why this wiki is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License. That license is flawed due to the controversially vague distinction between commercial and noncommercial (like what Definition of Free Cultural Works has argued and because it is falsely believed to be a copyleft one, when it is actually proprietary.

By restricting commercial use, you are giving people paranoia about what they may use their work for, and technically commercial use could be more than paywalls and simply selling something. What about ads or linking to one's Patron or Ko-fi or relying on donations. Do you actually want to restrict that?

You also acknowledge that work on this wiki is incompatible with CC BY-SA stuff like Wikipedia and Bloons Wiki, but what if people want to fork material from Bloons Wiki to help Blooncyclopedia and to make it grow, as long as they attribute (link to license, indicate changes, no falsely suggested endorsement from author et cetera) the wiki and all? Are you, or are you not concerned about having plagiarised from Bloons Wiki whenever you just happen to also write about Bloons?

What do I suggest? The best option could be to reboot this wiki and pick a free license instead, even if it is sad because this wiki is still growing and has potential to be better than Bloons Wiki. CC BY-SA 4.0 is recommended by me because the 4.0 versions of the licenses are better, and because CC BY-SA 4.0, unlike CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, fits the Definition of Culturally Free Works. You might not like this, but to make this wiki free, selling it must be allowed. Libre is more important than gratis.

P.S. The CAPTCHA is hard to see due to the background color being so close to the text color. CarlFilip19 (talk) 13:44, 29 October 2024 (UTC)