[Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

[Andrew Gray]

On 26 August 2011 12:37, Fae <faenwp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds a little problematic depending on the details. If the text was
> released on Wikipedia first, then the contributors agreed "to release
> your contribution under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License". If the all the
> authors of the article can identify themselves as the same people who
> contributed under the named accounts for the original Wikipedia
> article then release to PD is no problem, in practice few articles
> only have a history of contributors who are using accounts associated
> with their legal identities.

Legal identity is a bit tangential here, I think; if we accept a
pseudonymous account as good enough to release the content under CC
licenses to begin with, then all you'd need for relicensing would be
for those same accounts to agree to it.

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- Andrew Gray
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