[Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/2/1 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>
>> The new GFDL license only allows relicensing under CC-BY-SA of things
>> either published for the first time on the wiki or added to the wiki
>> before the new license was announced. Since this was published in a
>> book first and added to Wikipedia since the new license was announced,
>> it isn't eligible (without explicit permission from the copyright
>> owner - which shouldn't be difficult to get).
>>
>>
>
> I think this merits the question: would it be only necessary
> to accede to the relicensing? Or would it be necessary to also
> ask them to abide by any new terms of use of the site that
> would exceed the minimal requirements of the CC-BY-SA license?

If there are additional terms then the whole relicensing is null and
void, so this book would be the least of our worries. Any other
content brought in from other sources would have to be deleted or the
copyright owner contacted to give permission.