2008/9/18 Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:05 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is a real-life circumstance. Such cases always have to be dealt with individually, and not being a dick about it is important. People just don't get these licenses. We've had people reach admin on en:wp without understanding that they're supposed to have licensed the work irrevocably for the whole world and not just Wikimedia.
Does this tend to come up more on OTRS or onwiki?
I have no idea about OTRS. It comes up on the wikis fairly infrequently, but often enough to need ways to deal with it.
The key point is that in most cases, the contributor didn't realise what "free content" means in all its terrible glory. Even the stroppy ones must be assumed to be thrashing about with sincere intentions, and doing what we can within reason is the way to go.
- d.