On 9/26/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/26/05, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
The Geoffry Philp page was a copyvio, but the anon who wrote it has posted the following material on the talk page.
"I, Geoffrey Philp, am the holder of the copyright to geoffreyphilp.comhttp://geoffreyphilp.comand I grant Wikipedia all rights to use the information contained on the page".
The release can't be just to Wikipedia, because our content is released under the GFDL. A release just to Wikipedia is not a free license and so we still can't use it.
This is where license issues can get really tricky for those who aren't careful about how they license their work: if this user really did grant Wikipedia ALL RIGHTS, then Wikipedia has the right to relicense the work and there is no problem. However, there is the problem of whether it is the original author's true intent ot grant all rights, or limited rights.
I think we'll have to get a clarification, because we don't want to take more of someone's rights than they intended to grant us over a misunderstanding.
-- Michael Turley User:Unfocused