[Foundation-l] Wikibooks NL is changing License

[Bryan Tong Minh]

It is not that complicated. You simply cannot sublicense your derivate
work under the cc-by-sa. In case you edit a GFDL only document, your
contributions are solely under the GFDL.

Bryan

On 3/22/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The issue is with new contributions to existing articles. The new
> article created by editing the old would be a derivative work - can
> you release your modifications to a derivative work under an
> additional license to that of the original work? Also, who owns the
> copyright on an article after someone else goes through and corrects
> the spelling? I'm pretty sure the original author does, yet the
> corrections can be used under a license that author hasn't agreed to.
> It's not at all simple.
>
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