On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Anthony writes:
Which part is unclear? The dumps contain my copyrighted work. You have no license to distribute them (you might have once had a license under the GFDL, but I explicitly and permanently terminated those rights over 30 days ago in an email to you).
It was unclear to me that you believe you have the right to revoke the GFDL license you freely granted under copyright law. I'm unclear as to what legal theory could be relied upon to revoke a free license.
I'm surprised you never learned that, but fortunately it's irrelevant. Just reread section 9 of the GFDL. I find it rather astounding that you don't know what it says.
Especially since it was one of the major changes (probably the second biggest) to GFDL 1.3. Seriously, how could you not be familiar with that change?
The dump content is still handled under GFDL 1.2 as no migration has been asserted. Hence the new clauses about notification and time limits aren't (yet) relevant.
I concur though that even under GFDL 1.2 many of the dumps fail to comply with the license terms.
-Robert Rohde