[WikiEN-l] Escaping the GDFL -- can it be done?

[geni]

On 3/2/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> In order to
> accomplish that at present, we'd have to do a hostile takeover of the
> Free Software Foundation.
>


And the downside of doing that would be?

>
> If this principle works -- couldn't we change the terms of use? That
> is, instead of every edit being licenseable under the GFDL, couldn't
> we change it to say that "this contribution, and any other
> contribution I have previously made, is licenseable under the GFDL or
> any other similarly 'free' license"? It wouldn't necessarily get *all*
> of the content out of the GFDL but, if we assume that many of the
> editors now were editors previously, it would potentially "free up" a
> very large amount of content.

Derivative works. One editor per article would be enough to really
mess things up.

--
geni