2008/5/1, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
Does it mean that the new wikis will have some content which is GFDL-only (what was created or derives from something created elsewhere) and some content which is doubly licensed?
As I understand it, yes. Which seems extremely confusing, and likely to cause more problems than it solves. The only explanation for this very strange decision that I can see if that the new license has an arbitrary date in it that pre-dates the actual publication of the license. If that's the case, then the correct action for the WMF is to point out to the people writing the license how stupid this is, rather than trying to cater to such a stupid clause.
Maybe I am just shy and Dutch and all, but I would rather not insinuate to a lawyer that his proposal is stupid before I actually have the same background information, exact wordings and knowledge on the topic...
-- Lodewijk