Erik's interpretation of the GFDL is the same as mine (and yours). It shouldn't be a problem for the relicensing process, because we don't normally deal with Invariant Sections.<br><br><br>--Mike<br><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Marco 27 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marco27.wiki@gmail.com">marco27.wiki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Italian Wikipedia we have a problem that may compromise part of the license update process. We have {{<a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL-con-disclaimer" title="w:it:Template:GFDL-con-disclaimer" target="_blank">GFDL-con-disclaimer</a>}} and {{<a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL-Utente-con-disclaimer" title="w:it:Template:GFDL-Utente-con-disclaimer" target="_blank">GFDL-Utente-con-disclaimer</a>}} (on Wikimedia Commons: {{<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL-it" title="commons:Template:GFDL-it" target="_blank">GFDL-it</a>}}). During the license update process we have noticed that on 2004, with <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AGFDL&diff=179779&oldid=177213" title="http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AGFDL&diff=179779&oldid=177213" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this good faith edit</a>, a user removed part of text to make template shorter. Unfortunately, the removed part of text is "<i>senza alcuna sezione non modificabile, nessun testo di copertina, nessun testo di retro copertina</i>"
("with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts"). Now there arises a doubt: can we relicense files licensed
under this copyright tag? Or the absence of that part of text prevents
relicensing? About this, we see that in the <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="commons:Commons:GNU Free Documentation License" target="_blank">GFDL license document</a>, in the section entitled "1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS", there this key passage: <i>The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant Sections then there are none.</i>
(and this should be applicable also for cover texts: their presence
must be explicit). So, we think that relicensing is possible. Thanks in
advance.<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Marco 27 (<a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Marco_27" target="_blank">http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Marco_27</a>)<br>
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