On 24/09/06, David Alexander Russell webmaster@davidarussell.co.uk wrote:
- You can't legally require anyone to relicence their work just because
you decide you don't like the terms any more. They would be perfectly entitled to say 'fuck you' (or some lawyer-approved legalese equivalent) to the WMF
Indeed. For a real-life example, the Mozilla Foundation wanted to relicense all MPL code with the GPL and LGPL as well, and I think is *still* tracking down contributors whose code they want to relicense. The alternative is rewriting, which is just painful.
- Making all future contributions multi-licenceable would create two
problems: a) New contributions may be licence-incompatible with new ones
eh?
b) A great deal of contributors would go to Citizendium instead
At last status report I was aware of, Citizendium is still debating the license for its new works and may dual-licence with cc-by-sa.
- d.