Erik Moeller wrote:

I see three possibilities:

1. Waste much of our time arguing with Anthony about his FDL

interpretation, possibly hire a lawyer, possibly go to court, possibly lose. 2) Name clear conditions for how individual articles must be licensed. If Anthony refuses to comply, permanently ban him from editing Wikipedia. 3) Do nothing.

Option 2) seems the wisest to me. Anthony is clearly a troll who, like a vampire, wants to suck energy from us and our project. We should not give him what he wants. His "fork" seems to have no intention other than to piss people off. It will likely fade away into the darkness as he himself does.

Either he adjusts his behavior and can be unbanned, or he does not and he cannot. Whatever he does, we win: We either get rid of a persistent troll, or we get our interpretation of the FDL confirmed.

In my opinion, this is a decision Jimbo should make, as this is clearly a Wikimedia issue. I can only attribute his silence on the matter to him not haven taken notice of the fork and related discussion yet.

I could also attribute it to Jimbo concluding that the fork is not important enough to bother about. There's no significant harm to Wikipedia, except when we waste time on option 1). Banning Anthony doesn't prevent him from copying Wikipedia for his fork. If McFly will likely fade away, and I believe it will, then option 3) is a better choice.

Calling Anthony a troll, when he's complying with his interpretation of the GFDL in good faith, seems like a good way to turn him into one.

--Michael Snow