New subject: [Foundation-l] GNU FDL 1.3 released!

3 Nov 2008

Images are handled under different licenses? It doesn't seem very wise to license them
under a documentation license

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From: Michael Bimmler &lt;mbimmler(a)gmail.com&gt;
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;
Sent: Monday, November 3, 2008 8:36:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] GNU FDL 1.3 released!

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Thomas Dalton &lt;thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
...
  2008/11/3 Erik Moeller &lt;erik(a)wikimedia.org&gt;rg>:
  2008/11/3 Nathan &lt;nawrich(a)gmail.com&gt;om>:
  Referring to:

 "An MMC is "eligible for relicensing" if it is licensed under this
License,
 and if all works that were first published under this License somewhere
 other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole or in part into
 the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections, and (2) were thus
 incorporated prior to November 1, 2008."

 I get the feeling that your reading of this section is not completely
 accurate. 
 That's correct. Changes originating in the wiki to be relicensed can
 still be relicensed past November 1, in fact until the 2009 deadline
 for relicensing. I haven't checked the FAQ (we didn't receive an
 advance copy of it), but it is possible that it doesn't correctly
 reflect this point. 
 Ok, that's marginally better. We don't need to delete everything
 posted in the past 2 days (and the subsequent time until we decide
 whether or not to switch) we just have to scour through it all and
 delete those parts that weren't originally posted to whatever project
 you're on - that includes anything transwikied and anything
 translated. I stand by my original assessment, it's a useless license.

I'm following up on what Bence mentioned first here: What about e.g.
images that we receive through permissions(a)wikimedia.org between
November 1 and (hopefully) Novermber X?  These were obviously
published first somewhere else than a Wiki...what's the position on
this? I'm not intending to spread panic (*especially* because I'm
really not a copyright law expert and at the moment somewhat too tired
for analytical reading of the license), but still, if the permissions
team should stop handle permissions for the moment, it had better be
told...

Best regards,
Michael

-- 
Michael Bimmler
mbimmler(a)gmail.com

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