On 1/22/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/22/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Sure, Tony can grant other rights to people outside the GFDL. But, according to the GFDL, if anyone actually exercises those rights the GFDL itself is automatically revoked.
IOW, according to the GFDL, you can use one license or the other - you can't use both (so to call the GFDL a "non-exclusive license" deserves some caveats).
Are you sure this is the correct reading of the GFDL? I see it as meaning that you cannot take a GFDL'd document and relicense it. NOT that the original author cannot release their own original work under multiple licenses.
-Matt
I don't see any other way to read it. It doesn't say you can't relicense the document. It says you can't "copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except as expressly provided for under this License" and that doing so (actually, according to the language, merely "attempt"ing to do so) will "automatically terminate your rights under this License."
Now, that's just what the license says. I don't know if a judge would enforce such a rule. It is rather unconscionable.
Anthony