On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, David Claughton dave@encoresoup.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Since you could delete the GFDL-only version and remake it as a dual licensed version after the switchover (assuming we do switchover), I can't see how there could a problem. (Assuming you are the only person to modify it, otherwise you need to be careful about what licenses the modifications are released under.)
As an owner of an (experimental) partial fork of WP, I'm also interested in this issue.
My interpretation is that the migration clauses in GFDL 1.3 apply to all wikis, not just Wikimedia's. So anyone running a GFDL wiki (assuming "or later version" text is intact), can migrate the content to cc-by-sa anytime up to the deadline. This includes WP content that has been modified on my wiki.
Obviously to do so before Wikimedia has decided if it is going to do so would be a bad idea if one wants to continue to bring updates across from WP (as this would be impossible after the deadline has passed).
The problem is that my site can't be treated as a "massive collaborative site" (or whatever the name is) because it is a strictly editorial work. As the date for importing GFDL-only texts passed, as well as because of the first reason, I am not sure that I would be able to use any of transitional conditions. But, Thomas gave a good answer how to solve it; however, the licensing issue for me is an easier one because I am translating articles, which means that I don't need to care to any minor change and to be very sure that I wouldn't have much more job after the migration than to rewrite dates of translation.
At the other side, I think that your wiki may be treated as a "massive collaborative site", which may be inside of transitional terms. But, again, it would be good to hear Mike for such cases.
Also, AIUI the dual-license thing is a private arrangement between the FSF and Wikimedia? Therefore I do not have to honour it - I could in theory migrate to cc-by-sa only? However this would make it difficult or impossible to bring updates on my wiki back over into Wikipedia (so I probably won't do this - I want to maintain bidirectional sharing)
According to the license conditions, you are able to do so.
While I understand why CC-BY-SA-only materials may be imported, I agree with you that the best option is to leave sites double-licensed, if possible. In the cases of small sites with very strict editorial work it is possible to leave materials straight dual-licensed, while any massive collaborative site should switch to Wikipedia-like dual licensing (which means that CC-BY-SA-only texts may be imported).