From: Jimmy Wales
If we were starting wikipedia from scratch today, I would prefer to create a wikipedia license that says "You can redistribute this content under GNU FDL, CC-SA, or additional free licenses that may be specified from time to time on this page."
But isn't it too late for that?
Why not add a "from <chose your date> the license is changed to...", and ask all contributers to sign on a page if they retroactively agree, and theoretically one could filter out all articles not covered and rewrite those is necessary.
Schewek
Schewek wrote:
Why not add a "from <chose your date> the license is changed to...", and ask all contributers to sign on a page if they retroactively agree, and theoretically one could filter out all articles not covered and rewrite those if necessary.
Given the thousands of Wikipedia contributors, this is impractical.
We can, however, do this for Wikibooks, but only if it happens early. If we ignore the licence issue now and just use the GNU FDL, then it will be equally impractical for Wikibooks.
-- Toby
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