On 3/2/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
There was also the big push, awhile ago, to get users to put templates on their user pages indicating that their present, future, and, I think, *past* contributions were multi-licensed as well -- I believe it had to do with making certain articles compatible with WikiCities' license.
Wikicities is under the GFDL (to be compatible with Wikipedia), so any relicensing had nothing to do with that.
If this principle works -- couldn't we change the terms of use? That is, instead of every edit being licenseable under the GFDL, couldn't we change it to say that "this contribution, and any other contribution I have previously made, is licenseable under the GFDL or any other similarly 'free' license"?
There is a proposal on the German Wikipedia about making unregistered users dual license their edits under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License and GFDL. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Creative_Commons-Migration_Teil_1 (Machine translation into English at http://tinyurl.com/bkov5). It was discussed in German in this thread: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2006-January/016116.html
Angela