Op ma 28-07-2003, om 22:20 schreef Tomasz Wegrzanowski:
Legally can't work, copyright transfer can't be done by "clicking", and that's especially so if copyright owner is anonymous.
This is what ordinary corporate websites do: http://www.aol.com/copyright.adp USER'S GRANT OF LIMITED LICENSE
By posting or submitting content to this site, you: 1. grant America Online and its affiliates and licensees the right to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, distribute, have distributed, and promote the content in any form, anywhere and for any purpose; and 2. warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content and that public posting and use of your content by America Online will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.
Funny that they call it a limited license. :)
If copyright transfer is not possible, then at least a more liberal licensing to the Wikimedia Foundation can be asked, upon which the Wikimedia Foundation automatically decides to license the anonymous contribution under the GFDL. But since the contribution was given more liberally, the content could also be relicensed if necessary without having to track the anonymous contributor or to remove his contribution alltogether.
Wouter Vanden Hove www.open-education.org www.opencursus.be