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

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

You can't suddenly change the agreement by which things were licensed.
If we were to change the GFDL to become PD, lots of people will want to
retract edits it applies to, because that's not what they agreed to when
they edited it at the time.

Mgm


On 3/2/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/2/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net> wrote:
> > On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Fastfission wrote:
> >
> > > 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).
> >
> > A revised version of the GFDL wouldn't help us because Wikipedia
> > would still be licensed under the old version.
>
> Wikipedia is licensed under all versions of the GFDL starting with
> version 1.2.  From [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]]:
>
> "Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this
> document under the Gnu Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or any
> later version published by the Free Software Foundation"
>
> This means that if GFDL 2.0 comes out as a verbatim copy of the
> Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution Share-Alike license, then all of
> Wikipedia is effectively dual-licensed under GFDL 1.2 and CC-BY-SA
> 2.5, and anyone re-using the content can pick whichever license they
> want.
>
> --
> Mark
> [[User:Carnildo]]
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