On 12/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I don't *think* I've used it that way myself, but I'm currently wracking my brain trying to think of anyone who I might have. These people *will* feel ripped off.
We could, for a transitional phase, allow photographers to change license templates on media they hold the copyright to from an (arguably or not) permissive copyleft license, to an explicitly strong copyleft license. This would not invalidate the old templates, but at least ensure that people finding the files on our site would be asked to respect the strong copyleft provision.
After the transitional phase, strong copyleft would just be a choice for new uploads.
This all presumes the existence of a strong copyleft license in the first place. :-)