(Apologies if the structuring of this post is awkward. I needed to find a way to stuff all the context that led to my idea)

Hello all,

Yesterday, I was posing a question at Wikimedia Common's village pump and came up with a somewhat intereting idea in the middle of typing. You see, my question was regarding the sci-fi furry species known as protogens. protogens are known as a "semi-open species", meaning that while they are (generally) monetarily free for the public to use, there are some limits to derivative works, typically regarding the aesthetics of the deriviative character or regarding commercial use. I noticed that (because of this), the speices doesn't meet The Definition of Free Cultural Works, which would (likely) make the freely-licensed derivative works on WMC invalid. It had me thinking, I've personally never seen an explicitly freely-licensed original species in the furry community**, and even many "open species" have guidelines/regulated which would exempt it out of The Definition of Free Cultural Works. How unfortunate.

Which leads me to the reason I make this post today: what if there was a collection of freely-licensed original species, furry or otherwise? Obviously, the concept of creating a original species that's freely-licensed isn't exactly new (I seem to recall someone here on OGA attempting to create a whole fantasy world that's entirely CC0), but having a neatly organized collection of creatures that anyone can use is pretty cool, in my opinion. I've already started something for my part, though I'm not sure if it will ever be released considering how sucky my worldbuilding skills are. I think a collection here would trend more non-anthro as I don't think the majority of OGA users are furries/furry adjacent, but I think the idea benefits everyone.

SIDENOTES:
** Again, this is from what I've seen. I only very lightly dabble in furry things.