[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 00:04:09 UTC 2008


2008/11/3 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> 2008/11/3 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>> What are the terms of the agreement? There are various ways of
>> implementing duel licensing and I would like to know which ones are
>> legit.
>
> [begin quote from Richard]
> * ALL contributors agree to the following:
>
>  Wikipedia can release their newly written text
>  under both GFDL and CC-BY-SA in parallel.
>  However, if they imported any external material
>  that's available under CC-BY-SA and not under GFDL,
>  Wikipedia is bound by that.
>
> * All old revisions are released under GFDL | CC-BY-SA.
>
> * All new revisions are released with this license statement:
>
>  This page is released under CC-BY-SA.
>  Depending on its editing history, it MAY also be available under
>  the GFDL; see [link] for how to determine that.
> [end quote from Richard]
>
> This is not set in stone; we can modify some aspects of it in
> consultation with FSF as long as the overall spirit remains intact.
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

I believe it is possible to build an acceptable duel licensing setup
within the wording of the current agreement.

-- 
geni



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