[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Anthony writes:
>
> > Which part is unclear?  The dumps contain my copyrighted work.  You
> > have no
> > license to distribute them (you might have once had a license under
> > the
> > GFDL, but I explicitly and permanently terminated those rights over
> > 30 days
> > ago in an email to you).
>
> It was unclear to me that you believe you have the right to revoke the
> GFDL license you freely granted under copyright law.  I'm unclear as
> to what legal theory could be relied upon to revoke a free license.
>

I'm surprised you never learned that, but fortunately it's irrelevant.  Just
reread section 9 of the GFDL.  I find it rather astounding that you don't
know what it says.