[Foundation-l] Re: A license for the Ultimate Wiktionary

[Brion Vibber]

Rowan Collins wrote:
> Of course, this actually makes it far *easier* to do the tagging - the
> database "knows" who has contributed to an article (or revision), so
> if it was "told" which users had agreed to new licensing terms, it
> could determine (and update) the licensing status of every revision in
> the database. No human would need to think about it, just ask the
> computer!

This unfortunately isn't true.

The person who submitted an edit is not always the author of everything
that they added: material may be copied from another article written by
someone else, or even taken from an entirely separate resource that was
under GFDL or a compatible license terms, which might not be compatible
with a new license.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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