On Nov 22, 2007 1:14 AM, Dmcdevit dmcdevit@cox.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Yes. There's no plans to do this other than using the "or later" clause.
And if you (you, Robert) didn't mean "or later" as well ... what did you think you were doing when you clicked "submit"?
Incidentally, the "Version 1.2 or any later version" wording on the edit window is an exclusively English Wikipedia phenomenon, but does not appear elsewhere that I am aware. Click edit at Wiktionary and you'll notice that you are only agreeing to release it under the GFDL. Even the wording on enwp only dates from March < http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Edittools&diff=11470...
.
Hopefully there is more to the argument than the "clicking submit" point, considering that the "or later" clause tends to be buried in some project-space "Copyright" page.
FYI, if you don't specify a version number, then the current GFDL says
that reusers are free to rely on any version of the GFDL ever officially published (past or future) when reusing your content.
-Robert Rohde