David Gerard wrote:
On 23/11/2007, Robert Horning
<robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote:
en.wikibooks that I haven't touched at least
on some level. Mind you,
I'm not trying to say I'm going to be a PITA on this, but a presumption
that existing copyright claims are irrelevant and can be effectively
ignored is going to be something tough to accomplish and IMHO a legal
nightmare. I know for a fact that I am not alone here on this
declaration of copyright on my contributions to Wikimedia projects.
Then why did you hit "submit" each time?
Are you asking why I hit "submit" when the presumption was that I
could
assert copyright on my contributions.... or that somehow what I added to
Wikimedia projects was a free gift to the WMF for them to assert
copyright over and set terms of that copyright however the WMF board of
trustees saw fit?
I don't understand this at all or what you mean here.
My contributions have been under the terms of the
GFDL, and whatever the
FSF says is the "or later version" I will respect in terms of fitting to
the fine points of the GFDL. There is no way I can "take the license
away" at this point, but I certainly am going to expect that the terms
of the GFDL are followed on my contributions.
I suspect I've lost track of the particular hypothetical offence you
are speaking of. A violation of your copyright that you'll win even if
the reuser points to "or later version"? If it's not a future version
of the GFDL, then "or later version" can't possibly apply.
- d.
I suppose I have. What has been suggested here by Mike and Andrew was
not a modification of the GFDL to an updated version, but suggesting
that some sort of community vote could happen here that would simply
ignore that the GFDL even exists, and simply replacing the default
license on all Wikimedia projects to something like CC-by-SA. We are
talking in circles here, but I'm pointing out that the GFDL is what it
is. I have not agreed to have my contributions released under any other
license other than the GFDL, and that is all I'm asserting. The flame
is coming from the presumption that I am insisting on maintaining
everything under the terms of the GFDL v 1.2, and that is not what I'm
saying. I'm simply declaring in a public forum that I am asserting my
copyright on my contributions to Wikimedia projects, and insisting that
they remain under the terms of the GFDL.... nothing more or less than
simply this. The rest is reaction to this bold statement, as if the
GFDL doesn't matter at all.
-- Robert Horning