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

[Angela]

On 3/2/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was also the big push, awhile ago, to get
> users to put templates on their user pages indicating that their
> present, future, and, I think, *past* contributions were
> multi-licensed as well -- I believe it had to do with making certain
> articles compatible with WikiCities' license.

Wikicities is under the GFDL (to be compatible with Wikipedia), so any
relicensing had nothing to do with that.

> 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"?

There is a proposal on the German Wikipedia about making unregistered
users dual license their edits under the Creative Commons Attribution
Share-Alike License and GFDL. See
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Creative_Commons-Migration_Teil_1>
(Machine translation into English at <http://tinyurl.com/bkov5>). It
was discussed in German in this thread:
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2006-January/016116.html

Angela