[Textbook-l] Anonymous contributions

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 30 15:57:13 UTC 2003


Toby wrote:
>Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:
>>Copyright could be transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation. A disclaimer
>>could be issued that states that the contributions always will be used
>>in a free and open copyleft spirit.
>
>This sounds like a very interesting idea!

Yes - for /anonymous contributions/ it does sound interesting. Logged-in users 
should retain copyright. Otherwise way too much power and control is being 
entrusted to the Foundation. 

But making it easy for logged-in users to assign copyright if they want too 
should be fine. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

 



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