[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2010/2/20 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other
>> submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL.
>
> Evidence?
> --

Evidence of what? At the beginning on all Wikipedias as well as meta
there were no license templates at all. It was just assumed that all
original content is under GNU FDL - both text and pictures. The idea
of license templates for media files was created to provide
possibility to use pictures on other free licenses and those which are
public domain. Following the copyright paranoia in such the manner you
could ask if there is any evidence that articles in Wikipedia are
legally under GNU FDL / CC-BY-SA. Do we have any evidence that users
agreed for the license conditions?  How many of them read the
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use ? And how many of
those who read Terms of Use followed the links to the licenses legal
code or at least general explanation of their practical consequences ?
In case of text content it is simply assumed with no evidence at all
that editors agreed. Moreover even if the uploader to Commons chooses
the license in upload form do we check if he/she knows and understand
its conditions? So, it is all assumed with no evidence at all.
Strange?
-- 
Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
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http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
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