On 3/2/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
You could always mix the two. Relicense some parts
and rewrite the
rest. Of course, figuring out which parts are relicensed and which
aren't is almost as hard as just rewriting the thing.
There might be automated ways to do it -- massive database crunches to
see who wrote one in an existing article, whether they were under the
new scheme, what exactly would need to be rewritten/removed/whatever.
But that's a little out of my league, technically speaking -- I don't
know if it is feasible in terms of processing power, the amount of
time it would take to code the whole thing, etc. (it probably isn't).
The first approach is of course viable. At the very
worst it could be
done with the same amount of time it took to create the current
version. But in practice it'd be easier. Plus, you could fact check
and reference while you're at it.
I imagine it would take a lot less time -- the number of editors has
grown dramatically since then, so hypothetically there are already
huge resources available. Hypothetically.
FF