Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

Michael Snow wrote:

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

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Erik Moeller wrote:

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If WMF does not choose to re-license content on Wikimedia's sites to CC-BY-SA, there are limitations in place in the current re-licensing language to prevent others from doing so.

I am sorry, I know I am certainly the last person who would have a right to grumble...

But seriously, I am simply failing to parse that sentence; and somehow I suspect there is something significant behind it. Could someone forego the flip responses, and rephrase it in a fashion that would clarify the thinking behind that sentence?

It means that the potential relicensing will be carefully circumscribed. It won't simply allow anyone to relicense GFDL content under CC-BY-SA anytime they want.

--Michael Snow

Thank you. This phrasing has the considerable virtue of saying something isn't positively "allowed" rather than claiming there are limitations which "prevent". And I can easily understand that relicensing would not happen "simply". That is quite defensible. Of course it would be complex.

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen