[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: w to properly use articles from an outside GFDL source?
Andre Engels
engelsAG at t-online.de
Sun May 30 21:54:00 UTC 2004
"Ulrich Fuchs" <mail at ulrich-fuchs.de> schrieb:
> Exactly - our only way out of the license issues we currently have is to
> persuade the FSF to change it - a new license would apply to all *existing*
> articles without requireing an additional statement from the authors.
> However, if I remember correctly, we had some discussion in Germany some
> yeras ago that this particular point of the GNU Licenses (that the author
> license it's wark under whatever license the FSF will change it's current one
> into) would not be legal according to german law. I don't know if and how
> this was settled and if that's still an issue; I just wanted to mention that
> we possibly could run into difficulties here. But it's a very minor risk in
> my opinion, so it should not stop us from these talks with the FSF.
Well, if you want an even worse legal problem: In the Netherlands it seems
creating a published work cooperatively in the Wiki way is illegal - a writer
cannot sign away their right to object to their work being published in a
changed fashion.
Andre Engels
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