Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/21/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
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Heh, yeah. Though come to think of it, I really doubt anyone can enforce the terms of the GFDL on the originator of the material. If you reuse someone else's GFDL material then fail to respect the terms, that would be one thing. But if you create the (entirely original, underived) material, call it GFDL, then don't carry out the terms properly, I don't see how you can be held to account - it's your material, you can do whatever the bloody hell you want with it.
The originator (and copyright holder) here is the Wikipedian who posted the comment, though, not the Wikimedia Foundation, so the Wikimedia Foundation does still need to respect the GFDL, since that's the license under which it has permission to use the material.
-Mark