Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>
>> Erik Moeller wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If
>>> WMF does not choose to re-license content on Wikimedia's sites to
>>> CC-BY-SA, there are limitations in place in the current re-licensing
>>> language to prevent others from doing so.
>>>
>>>
>> I am sorry, I know I am certainly the last person who
>> would have a right to grumble...
>>
>> But seriously, I am simply failing to parse that sentence;
>> and somehow I suspect there is something significant
>> behind it. Could someone forego the flip responses, and
>> rephrase it in a fashion that would clarify the thinking
>> behind that sentence?
>>
>>
> It means that the potential relicensing will be carefully circumscribed.
> It won't simply allow anyone to relicense GFDL content under CC-BY-SA
> anytime they want.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
>
Thank you. This phrasing has the considerable virtue
of saying something isn't positively "allowed" rather than
claiming there are limitations which "prevent". And I can
easily understand that relicensing would not happen
"simply". That is quite defensible. Of course it would
be complex.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen