[Commons-l] Problems with derivative works

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On 10/25/07, Nilfanion <nilfanion at googlemail.com> wrote:
> * Contact the creator of the derivative and inform him of the
> pertinent terms of the original license; and ask him to change the
> licensing on the derivative.
That would be the best thing to do
> * Changing the licensing on the derivative work to be compatible with
> the original work, and inform the creator of the new work of the
> change and the reason why.
You can't legally do that. If you release a derivative work of a GFDL
work under something different than the GFDL, you violate the terms of
the license and your license terminates. So you commit copyright
infringement. It does nto mean that your derivative automatically
becomes GFDL. IANAL.

Bryan