Hi
I am new to your list and browsed the archives briefly. I have a concern related to the FDL. A little background first - I started a project ( http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst ) to do something similar to wikibooks but not quite as general. We think we'll just upload our books into wikibooks when we are done.
We decided that in FDL spirit we'd use content from wikipedia and wikibooks to kickstart some sections etc. One of our members raised the concern that wikipedia content isn't screened to ensure that the contributor holds the copyright and may therefore add it to wikipedia and transfer copyright license to the FDL.
I guess that wikipedia could just remove content that is queried by someone who claims to have the copyright. Is this what you plan to do if such a problem arises? I realise that it is clear what license you are using etc. but who takes the fall if some commits something they don't hold the copyright to?
Our real concern is that we want to actually print books and raising money is hard enough. We don't want to risk printing the books again if something came up. (The quick answer is to write everything ourselves but thats also the slowest answer and we'd like to act as decisively as possible too.)
Have all these sorts of issues been resolved for wikipedia?
Thanks,
Mark