2009/2/1 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
The new GFDL license only allows relicensing under CC-BY-SA of things either published for the first time on the wiki or added to the wiki before the new license was announced. Since this was published in a book first and added to Wikipedia since the new license was announced, it isn't eligible (without explicit permission from the copyright owner - which shouldn't be difficult to get).
I think this merits the question: would it be only necessary to accede to the relicensing? Or would it be necessary to also ask them to abide by any new terms of use of the site that would exceed the minimal requirements of the CC-BY-SA license?
If there are additional terms then the whole relicensing is null and void, so this book would be the least of our worries. Any other content brought in from other sources would have to be deleted or the copyright owner contacted to give permission.