On 9/26/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/26/05, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The Geoffry Philp page was a copyvio, but the
anon who wrote it has posted
the following material on the talk page.
"I, Geoffrey Philp, am the holder of the copyright to
geoffreyphilp.com<http://geoffreyphilp.com>and I grant Wikipedia all
rights to use the information contained on the
page".
The release can't be just to Wikipedia, because our content is
released under the GFDL. A release just to Wikipedia is not a free
license and so we still can't use it.
This is where license issues can get really tricky for those who
aren't careful about how they license their work: if this user really
did grant Wikipedia ALL RIGHTS, then Wikipedia has the right to
relicense the work and there is no problem. However, there is the
problem of whether it is the original author's true intent ot grant
all rights, or limited rights.
I think we'll have to get a clarification, because we don't want to
take more of someone's rights than they intended to grant us over a
misunderstanding.
--
Michael Turley
User:Unfocused