[Foundation-l] New wiki creation

[effe iets anders]

2008/5/1, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton op gmail.com>:
> >  Does it mean that the new wikis will have some content which is
>  >  GFDL-only (what was created or derives from something created elsewhere)
>  >  and some content which is doubly licensed?
>
>
> As I understand it, yes. Which seems extremely confusing, and likely
>  to cause more problems than it solves. The only explanation for this
>  very strange decision that I can see if that the new license has an
>  arbitrary date in it that pre-dates the actual publication of the
>  license. If that's the case, then the correct action for the WMF is to
>  point out to the people writing the license how stupid this is, rather
>  than trying to cater to such a stupid clause.
>

Maybe I am just shy and Dutch and all, but I would rather not
insinuate to a lawyer that his proposal is stupid before I actually
have the same background information, exact wordings and knowledge on
the topic...

-- Lodewijk