On 6/10/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/10/07, Brock Weller brock.weller@gmail.com wrote:
An author can license his work to as many people under as many licenses as possible. Nonrevokable just means you cant take away the GFDL licensed version you gave wikipedia. You can have a all rights reserved copy you give someone else, they are also just free to use the GFDL copy if they prefer to. And you can also give wikipedia a CC copy, and/or PD copy, all with one submit click.
You're missing my point. When you contribute to an already existing article, you are making a derivative work based on that article, which is licensed under the GFDL. The GFDL states that if you make a derivative work from it you have to license it under the same terms, you can't just PD that thing because you are using the original authors work and he didn't allow you to do that.
That's a pretty odd interpretation of the GFDL and Wikipedia; the publisher isn't changing. Different versions of a Wikipedia page are not Modified Versions in the context of the GFDL under most reasonable interpretations.