2009/1/28 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
2009/1/28 geni geniice@gmail.com:
Yes, along with all the other imported GFDL material... oh, wait, sorry, I mean all the material which a contributor has chosen to license under GFDL 1.2 or later... oh, wait. How is this a special case?
The CC switch, when and if it happens, will be complex enough without inventing extra problems!
It is imported GFDL material. Which is a problem. Normaly we have very little imported stuff so not something I worry about overmuch but someone might want to give a heads up to the publishing company and author that we will be looking to switch it (and since it is imported we can't do that automagicaly).
This is pretty silly.
The author is... an active Wikipedia user, and has been for three and a half years. All his GDFL contributions made to Wikipedia can be relicensed without any fuss, but his writing first published elsewhere under *exactly the same license* and then re-uploaded, by himself, licensing his own intellectual property and ticking all the implicit boxes in exactly the same way as if he had first written it here, can't be?
But even if it weren't, I'm stull confused over how we have the right to use one set of GFDL v.1.2 or later contributions, and not the other. It is, after all, *exactly the same license*...
The new GFDL license only allows relicensing under CC-BY-SA of things either published for the first time on the wiki or added to the wiki before the new license was announced. Since this was published in a book first and added to Wikipedia since the new license was announced, it isn't eligible (without explicit permission from the copyright owner - which shouldn't be difficult to get).