[Licom-l] Problem on it.wikipedia

Marco 27 marco27.wiki at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 14:56:22 UTC 2009


Perfect!
Thanks a lot for your answers!

--Marco 27

2009/7/10 Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Licom-l] Problem on it.wikipedia
> To: Wikimedia licensing update committee <licom-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Erik's interpretation of the GFDL is the same as mine (and yours). It
> shouldn't be a problem for the relicensing process, because we don't
> normally deal with Invariant Sections.
>
>
> --Mike
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Marco 27 <marco27.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Italian Wikipedia we have a problem that may compromise part of the
> license update process. We have {{GFDL-con-disclaimer}} and
> {{GFDL-Utente-con-disclaimer}} (on Wikimedia Commons: {{GFDL-it}}). During
> the license update process we have noticed that on 2004, with this good
> faith edit, a user removed part of text to make template shorter.
> Unfortunately, the removed part of text is "senza alcuna sezione non
> modificabile, nessun testo di copertina, nessun testo di retro copertina"
> ("with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
> Texts"). Now there arises a doubt: can we relicense files licensed under
> this copyright tag? Or the absence of that part of text prevents
> relicensing? About this, we see that in the GFDL license document, in the
> section entitled "1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS", there this key passage:
> The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections. If the Document does not
> identify any Invariant Sections then there are none. (and this should be
> applicable also for cover texts: their presence must be explicit). So, we
> think that relicensing is possible. Thanks in advance.
> >
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> > Marco 27 (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Marco_27)
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