[Foundation-l] Wikibooks NL is changing License

Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 21:35:05 UTC 2007


I believe that this only applies to new contributions. The GFDL is a
non exclusive license; licensing it under its terms does not prevent
you as the copyright holder from releasing under one other.

Bryan

On 3/22/07, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> effe iets anders wrote:
>
> >Dear all,
> >
> >The Wikibooks NL community has decided to change the default license
> >of the textbooks for the future. That will mean that from a certain
> >point in the near future all new submitted changes and new texts will
> >be default double licenced under GNU FDL *and* CC-BY-SA-2.5 or later.
> >The texts that are currently in Wikibooks NL will be marked as "GFDL
> >only". This is so the project will be better able to spread it's
> >content (as the reuser has a choise to use only a page of the
> >wikibooks project without printing all the license etc)
> >
> >If every contributor of a certain page has agreed to relicense all
> >his/her contributions on Wikibooks NL, also those in the past, under
> >both licenses, the template stating the excemption of the default will
> >be removed.
> >
> >It will still be possible to import pages from Wikipedia NL to
> >Wikibooks NL. This will mean that a small part of the newly created
> >pages will also be marked as "GFDL only". The community has taken some
> >more precautions, such as creating templates to relicense all you
> >contributions (HINT: {{Dubbel}}) and a page with explanation, but it
> >would be too much in detail to explain that on this list. See this
> >please as announcement, and contact the Wikibooks NL community through
> >our Tutors' Chamber ([[b:nl:Wikibooks:Lerarenkamer]])
> >
> >With kind regards,
> >
> >Lodewijk Gelauff
> >
> >
> >
> Unless I am mistaken, GNU based licenses become null and void if you
> modify the license terms in any way. This includes
> publishing under multiple licenses (which is modifying the terms). I do
> agree that making the more open is a good thing, but I
> think you may void the GFDL terms if you release under dual licenses.
>
> Jeff
>
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