Toby wrote:
Now, we have to implement submission of copyleft material. Given other posters' complaints that transfer of copyright is out, and given that copyleft material must be tracked as such, I suggest:
- Tell contributors that submissions are licenced to
Wikimedia with no restriction other than those listed below;
- State (as part of their giving us rights, so it's
legally binding) that we will immediately distribute the material under the GNU FDL (which is exactly what we do when we put it up on the web site); and
- Give a radio button option to say that the material is:
- Free for the submitter to transfer all rights to us;
or
- Free for the submitter to submit only under the GNU
FDL. In the latter case, we flag the material as GNU FDL-only, so we won't accidentally redistribute it under a CC licence. (Thus it's out of bounds for the first "should somebody" above.) If somebody wants to give us submissions under some other copyleft (which is the second "should somebody" above), then we can add buttons.
If this can be made to work from a technical standpoint it sounds like a great solution to me. Default option is to transfer rights to the Wikimedia foundation and a checkbox if it is GNU FDL-only. But this just came into my head, what about the times that someone copies (GNU-only) text from the WP main site but does not flag it as such. Is there any way to automate finding this (I think this was previously discussed).
BTW, Anyone find the good link to the GNU FGL compatibility with other creative licenses yet ?
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