[Foundation-l] The license situation

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 00:51:19 UTC 2008


2008/10/18 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> 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.

Does the section deal with the difference between content originate on
wikipedia and GFDL content original hosted elsewhere?

-- 
geni



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