[WikiEN-l] Aneurysm

[The Cunctator]

On 6/10/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Brock Weller <brock.weller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > An author can license his work to as many people under as many licenses as
> > possible. Nonrevokable just means you cant take away the GFDL licensed
> > version you gave wikipedia. You can have a all rights reserved copy you give
> > someone else, they are also just free to use the GFDL copy if they prefer
> > to. And you can also give wikipedia a CC copy, and/or PD copy, all with one
> > submit click.
>
> You're missing my point. When you contribute to an already existing
> article, you are making a derivative work based on that article, which
> is licensed under the GFDL. The GFDL states that if you make a
> derivative work from it you have to license it under the same terms,
> you can't just PD that thing because you are using the original
> authors work and he didn't allow you to do that.

That's a pretty odd interpretation of the GFDL and Wikipedia; the
publisher isn't changing. Different versions of a Wikipedia page are
not Modified Versions in the context of the GFDL under most reasonable
interpretations.