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

[David Gerard]

On 26 August 2011 13:30, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.


Yes. What's the threat model here? That a reuser could be sued by an
insane or malicious copyright holder. If the same entity that created
the text releases the text, that would likely (modulo weirdness in
court) be enough.


- d.