[WikiEN-l] GFDL and images

[Andrew Gray]

On 11/06/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Precisely why are we stuck with it?  If it were an article it would be
> up for deletion.

We have a choice:

a) Drop the GFDL and pick a better license (ABL). The problem here is
that we cannot legitimately use anything that is licensed under GFDL,
unless we convince its author(s) to relicense their work under ABL.

Net effect: 98% of Wikipedia articles or so - including virtually
every single significant one - have to be abandoned and started again
from scratch. We'd only get to keep the ones where we could contact
all the contributors (well, all as of a certain revision whose
material had not been removed in that revision, and you might have fun
arguing that last clause) and get them to relicense their work - in
effect, only single-author articles by currently active users.

b) Live with it.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk