[Foundation-l] The license situation

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
I'd assume that assumptions are made on old drafts because there are
no new ones. I find it a little bit strange that the process for a
free license (open content) is held behind closed doors.


Bryan