Rowan Collins wrote:
Of course, this actually makes it far *easier* to do
the tagging - the
database "knows" who has contributed to an article (or revision), so
if it was "told" which users had agreed to new licensing terms, it
could determine (and update) the licensing status of every revision in
the database. No human would need to think about it, just ask the
computer!
This unfortunately isn't true.
The person who submitted an edit is not always the author of everything
that they added: material may be copied from another article written by
someone else, or even taken from an entirely separate resource that was
under GFDL or a compatible license terms, which might not be compatible
with a new license.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)