[Textbook-l] licenses

[Daniel Mayer]

Karl Wick wrote:
>In case it escaped anyones attention:
>
>http://textbook.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry:Licenses
>
>Also, I followed the GNU FDL compatibility link and it
>didnt go anywhere, does anyone have the good link ?
>
>( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl/compatibility/ )

You /cannot/ create your own license terms Karl - until we resolve this issue 
on the mailing list the /only/ terms that are to be followed are this; 

Please note that all contributions to Wikipedia are considered to be released 
under the GNU Free Documentation License (see Wikipedia:Copyrights for 
details). If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and 
redistributed at will, then don't submit it here.

You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a 
public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK 
WITHOUT PERMISSION!  

This is the only thing people agree to when submitting. Please see the talk 
page. But you can certainly /ask/ other people who work on the organic 
chemistry book whether or not they will also release their own work under 
other licenses. However you cannot require them to do so. 

We have always been able to /informally/ have disjoint licenses - you can 
release all original work by yourself under any license you want. But what 
licenses are enforced on the Wikimedia server is a matter of policy - which 
we still are in the middle of debating.

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)