That's about when it was noticed that he changes cc-by-sa and GDFL-self to GFDL1.2 and the whole fight started. Should we just protect the images from him or accept that he probably never will be a productive user anymore. If
Hm, it seem like Steschke is using the "temporary insanity" defense that Cary outlined in his last post ;-). His first license change had a comment in the edit summary that roughly says that he was not aware of some specific properties of the GFDL (the "or later versions" thing).
On one hand it shouldn't be our mission to make people miserable. On the other hand, we owe the users and re-users of the images at commons fighting for a dependable licensing. It would degrade the reliability of commons if we make room for precedents like this IMO.
Tough one.