On 05/12/2007, Lilewyn lilewyn@yahoo.ca wrote:
Silly question time. Just because a project, say, decides to migrate from one license type to another, how can the project forcefully reassign the older contributions under the new license? I'm familiar with the GFDL and CC-BY-SA, but suppose someone (who is a stick-in-the-mud true believer of the GFDL, for instance?) insists that their contributions are only licensed under the GFDL and not a similar but less restrictive CC license? What about all the contributors (aka copyright holders for Wikipedia's content) who either disagree with such a move, or those who simply never give consent to the changeover? I'm hoping I'm missing something.
"or later"
Each time you press "submit", you're contributing your text under GFDL 1.2 *or later*.
What WMF has done is formally ask the FSF to come up with a new official version of the GFDL that is compatible or identical with a present or future version of CC-by-sa. So the new licence text would be an already-agreed-to-licence for the GFDL 1.2 or later contributions.
- d.