[Foundation-l] Multi-licensing situations on page text

[GerardM]

Hoi,
When you have it as one of the conditions of use for a website, the notion
of having the content available under two licenses is a given. These two
licenses do not have to be really similar. For instance in OmegaWiki we have
a combined CC-by and GFDL license. Many people do not stop whining about
their GFDL while they typically are not aware that it is not a license that
was even meant for projects like Wikipedia. It was the best that was
available at the time. For many applications the GFDL prevents cooperation
and consequently a lot of material does not come available under a much more
liberal license like the CC-by.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Nov 19, 2007 8:12 AM, Kwan Ting Chan <ktc at ktchan.info> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 02:37 +0000, Oldak Quill wrote:
> > Sorry Robert, I was wrong about this. A post at cc-licenses mailing
> > list (
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2005-May/002265.html)
> > cleared things up. So only original works can be dual licensed, and
> > derivatives have to be licensed under either GFDL or CC-by-sa and
> > _cannot_ be licensed under both?
>
> IANAL.
>
> Even if one or both license require you to license any derivatives work
> under that particular license (or later version), that does not prevent
> you from re/dual-licensing a derivative work taking a different license
> as base as long as your re/dual license is the same license (or later
> version if allowed). You can think of it as having two branch of work
> available, one is license (say) under GFDL, and one CC. They just both
> happen to have the same exact content.
>
> In practise, you would of course have to have every editor from the
> beginning agreeing to release under both license. If any single editor
> release only under one, the work would then be only under that one
> license, any derivative work can't then be under the other license.
>
> KTC
>
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