Hi everyone,
First off, I'm an idiot. They actually relicensed the TV Tropes wiki to CC-BY-NC-SA from CC-BY-SA. So any earlier content, naturally, would be still under a commercial-okay license. This actually presents a major fork in the road for us, too. Our data set is still commercial-okay. Should we set the non-commercial bit on our license as well? I'm not a fan of restrictive licenses, as someone writing and publishing a book wouldn't be able to include content from one of the analysis pages, say. However, this would also mean that we couldn't migrate any new content to our site, so it would be a hard fork. (They'd actually be able to grab content from us, but I'm not sure that will be an issue.) Anyone have thoughts on this?
Second, the site has moved up to top priority in our software developer's schedule, as Evan needs to finish the software for his work and for his social life (a LARP wiki), as well as our project. Which is good, because it's not like I can afford to pay him or anything.
Third, I've changed my mind about importing the images, if only because I didn't want to leave a bunch of broken image markup around. I downloaded the entire image set some time back, which is only ~2.5 gigabytes. Of course, no one at TV Tropes actually noticed me doing so, so there goes the logic for banning me, lol. The copyright on the images is more obscure, being a mix of fair use, the older creative commons license, and God knows what else. Looks like I'll have to set up a system for DMCA takedown requests, and hope for the best.
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First off, I'm an idiot. They actually relicensed the TV Tropes wiki to CC-BY-NC-SA from CC-BY-SA. So any earlier content, naturally, would be still under a commercial-okay license. This actually presents a major fork in the road for us, too. Our data set is still commercial-okay. Should we set the non-commercial bit on our license as well? I'm not a fan of restrictive licenses, as someone writing and publishing a book wouldn't be able to include content from one of the analysis pages, say. However, this would also mean that we couldn't migrate any new content to our site, so it would be a hard fork. (They'd actually be able to grab content from us, but I'm not sure that will be an issue.) Anyone have thoughts on this?
Second, the site has moved up to top priority in our software developer's schedule, as Evan needs to finish the software for his work and for his social life (a LARP wiki), as well as our project. Which is good, because it's not like I can afford to pay him or anything.
Third, I've changed my mind about importing the images, if only because I didn't want to leave a bunch of broken image markup around. I downloaded the entire image set some time back, which is only ~2.5 gigabytes. Of course, no one at TV Tropes actually noticed me doing so, so there goes the logic for banning me, lol. The copyright on the images is more obscure, being a mix of fair use, the older creative commons license, and God knows what else. Looks like I'll have to set up a system for DMCA takedown requests, and hope for the best.
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