[Foundation-l] GFDL and relicensing

[David Gerard]

On 21/11/2007, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wasn't there a situation a few months back in which an administrator  on
> enwiki did not want his images copied to commons and so he tried deleting
> all his images claiming that he'd retracted his GFDL image contributions?
> I vaguely remember it, but I don't remember the details. What ended up
> happening in the end?


I recall the case, I don't recall the details. I believe he did not
get entirely what he wanted. I do recall LOTS of people wondering how
the hell he could get to admin with that little understanding of what
he was doing each and every time he pressed "submit."


- d.