2008/9/17 Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
A more marginal case would be someone who hasn't suddenly decided they don't want to play any more (like our original, *but* has just realised that the GFDL or a Creative Commons license wasn't quite what they thought it was.
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.
At some point in this, it goes from being reasonable to unreasonable, and I don't think we can draw a general line very easily - it really does boil down to whether or not the person seems like they're being silly.
We have to start with the assumption they're not being.
- d.