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

[Steven Ericsson Zenith]

Philip is correct.  The only way to escape the GDFL is to rewrite the 
entire encyclopedia under a different license - or get every single 
contributor to agree to reassign the content.  Good luck with that.

The first approach actually seems viable to me - see 
http://www.panopedia.org  :-)

With respect,
Steven
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>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:14:57 -0800
>From: Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Escaping the GFDL -- can it be done?
>To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
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>On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Fastfission wrote:
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>>> It is just a thought I had -- the only one I could come up with which
>>> seems really plausible, aside from the possibility of the FSF being
>>> convinced to make updates to the GFDL (which I suspect they would be
>>> very dubious about, especially if the edits were primarily to benefit
>>> Wikipedia).
>>    
>>
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>A revised version of the GFDL wouldn't help us because Wikipedia  
>would still be licensed under the old version.
>
> -- Philip L. Welch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch
>