[Foundation-l] GFDL and Relicensing

[David Gerard]

On 22/11/2007, Tim 'avatar' Bartel <wikipedia at computerkultur.org> wrote:

> You can't argue legal arguments with common sense. But in the actual
> case the submitter can act perfectly in commons sense: There are a lot
> of cases where people (in Germany) notice an '...or later' clause and
> sign a contract anyhow because they know, that this clause is ineffective.


OK. Are there cases where they sue for copyright violation and the
defender took them at their word?

What you're saying would imply that we have a problem having German
contributors to Wikimedia projects at all and the country should be
blocked. I urge you to seek a way around this.


- d.