2009/3/13 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:

The licensing update committee is a group of Wikimedia community members appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation to support and facilitate the process of making and potentially implementing a community decision on Wikimedia's licensing terms. If you would like to be involved, please see:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Committee

I will be processing applications over the weekend to move things forward :-)

Thanks, Erik

How exactly are people's real names relevant? Commons and to an extent en.pedia have been dealing with issues that make the relicensing look trivial for years without knowing or caring about real names.

I would actually be in favour of all committee members being required to publicly reveal their real names. The licensing update (if and when it occurs) would be major, historical event. People in charge of supporting/facilitating/implementing the decision regarding any license change should be accountable to the community and to the public.

I realise this requirement would be in the face of longstanding WMF tradition, though.

—Thomas Larsen