--- Tomos at Wikipedia <wiki_tomos(a)hotmail.com> wrote on WikiEN-l:
Mav, you are right in that the effect is limited
because we cannot
retroactively apply the second license to past edits. But if we consider the
effect, it seems it is still better to introduce it than not, and we would
do just as Electicology suggested:
Sorry, it is simply not possible to create a derivative dual licensed work from
a GFDL-only licensed article. Doing so would be a violation of the copyright of
everyone who submitted the GFDL-only text. Dual licensing would also make it
impossible to accept any new GFDL-only text.
We are stuck with the GFDL as is until the FSF makes changes to that license.
Let's concentrate on improving the license we have - Jimmy has already stated
that the FSF and CC people are interested in this type of thing.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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