On 6/10/07, Brock Weller
<brock.weller(a)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.