On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 19:26, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The current English wikipedia copyright terms are
"You irrevocably
agree to release your contributions under the GFDL" which clocks in at
ten words. There are another 13 words of editing guidance.
The current terms are brief, yes, but only because the string "GFDL" in that
sentence links to a footnote. That footnote (located at the end of
[[MediaWiki:Edittools]]) currently says "GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no
Back-Cover Texts.", with a link to the full license text.
Given that, it'd be trivial to change that sentence to "You irrevocably
agree to release your contributions under [link]our license[/link]" and
update the footnote accordingly.
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Jim Redmond
jim(a)scrubnugget.com