[Foundation-l] The license situation

[Erik Moeller]

2008/10/18 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> I highly doubt the FSF is going to give the WMF exclusive rights to
> relicense GFDL content (the draft version used the text "you may relicense
> the Work", not "the WMF may relicense the work", or even "the original
> publisher of the work, even if they deny that they are a publisher, may
> relicense the work"),

Please don't make assumptions based on drafts from two years ago. If
WMF does not choose to re-license content on Wikimedia's sites to
CC-BY-SA, there are limitations in place in the current re-licensing
language to prevent others from doing so.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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