A few months ago I in good faith borrowed information for a site to redistribute the work of a then-CC licensed dokuwiki at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/. The wiki I'm running is http://www.eeewiki.org... I provided a link at the bottom of every page linking to the creator's wiki.
After the incident, he removed the CC license from the wiki. I noticed the CC license, seeing as EeePC was open source, I saw nothing wrong with giving users a an ad-free choice to see the docs. Today, I don't believe he knew his new wiki was under this license at the time. However, he argued for a few weeks over attribution, citing the license, however still, it was law speak.
I was under a lot of pressure at the time because a tiny minority (10-20) of the site's (at the time) 10k+ users were chastising me over use of licensing and kinda doing the "let's get him boys" thing to me. Ah, wisdom of the crowds.
This situation pertains to the specific use of DokuWiki's default installation license, Creative Commons (
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic). By this, I mean a newly installed system will, by default, offer the information under this license w/ a button and code at the bottom of every page.
What is the proper way to attribute a Dokuwiki?
In a wiki, is it the "Creating party" or the "Every individual creator per article", or..?
In this case, What if you attribute the party itself but then the creator orders you to attribute the same content on an individual basis (per user to the article/edits)? What if he refuses to provide the dokuwiki DB dump (in this case, a folder of text files) and insists on pulling the names out per-edit, one by one?
Once the creator wiki removes the license, can you keep the content shared previously under CC at the time? Or must you destroy it?
Thanks
