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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Feb 21 07:49:55 UTC 2010


Anthony wrote:
> Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
>   
>> Do we agree with the idea, that at that
>> time everything uploaded was under GNU FDL or not
> Definitely not.  You were supposed to release uploads under the GFDL, *if
> you were the copyright owner*, but not everything that was uploaded was
> under GFDL.

Clearly the rule was based on assuming good faith, and that the person 
doing the uploading had the right to do so. It seems that many projects 
have long since abandoned the assumption of good faith.

Ec



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