On 8/23/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
How? The foundation has no power over the copyright of the content of Wikipedia. Changing license would require the permission of every contributor that hasn't had all their contributions removed. And that includes many anonymous contributors, and there is no way we can get their permission, since we can't identify them.
There are side attacks.
The most dirrect would be to figure out a way to change this list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation#Voting_Members
until it contiained only people who are prepared to turn the GFDL into a free license.
Other options are PR based. Ban pure GFDL media uploads and create a press release explaining why.
Moveing away from dirrect confrontation as the host of the largest repositry of GFDL content the foundation should be listened to.