On 3/2/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/3/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
So how to escape?
Easy! Three steps:
- Get everyone who has ever contributed to WP to revoke their GFDL
licensing, and re-license the stuff as whatever; 2. Buy out the copyright in all derivative works (ie, all the forks); 3. Buy out all the mirrors.
Or the good old one step version: rewrite everything from scratch.
I used to be a fan of the dual-licensing, but the more I think about it the more I figure that the only way to escape the GFDL is going to be to rewrite everything.
This is actually a bit easier than it sounds, since Wikipedia is mostly based in facts. It wouldn't be too hard to extract just the uncopyrightable facts, and then rewrite an encyclopedia based on that. Now for a few articles which were written by very few people this might not be enough, as the selection of facts might itself be copyrightable, but those are probably few and far between.
Anthony