--- Tomos at Wikipedia wiki_tomos@hotmail.com wrote on WikiEN-l:
Mav, you are right in that the effect is limited because we cannot retroactively apply the second license to past edits. But if we consider the effect, it seems it is still better to introduce it than not, and we would do just as Electicology suggested:
Sorry, it is simply not possible to create a derivative dual licensed work from a GFDL-only licensed article. Doing so would be a violation of the copyright of everyone who submitted the GFDL-only text. Dual licensing would also make it impossible to accept any new GFDL-only text.
We are stuck with the GFDL as is until the FSF makes changes to that license. Let's concentrate on improving the license we have - Jimmy has already stated that the FSF and CC people are interested in this type of thing.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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