[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

[geni]

2008/11/4 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> 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]
>
> The sometimes, sort of, dual licensing provisions be advocated here
> strikes me as impractical.
>
> As I understand it, and correct me if I am mistaken, the goal is to
> dual license all existing content and all future content directly
> created by Wikipedians.
>

Doesn't matter. The wording allows us to release all future content
directly created by Wikipedians CC-BY-SA only.


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geni