[WikiEN-l] Restricting the GFDL license to the namespace

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 3/15/07, David Hanson <behindtheateball at gmail.com> wrote:
>  At present GFDL includes not only wikipedia articles but talk pages, user
> pages and WP pages. This is entirely necessary and accentuates the risk of
> libelous or defamatory (or just nasty) comments being duplicated on various
> mirrors throughout the web, beyond the reach of editors to delete them.
>
> Since the product of wikipedia, the actual content, are articles and not
> talk pages, administrative pages, user pages etc can we do something to
> limit the GFDL to these pages specifically?

Are you saying that we should use a more restrictive license for the
talk-pages? One that does not allow redistribution? Like, standard
copyright? Even if this was feasible to do, I'd think that there would
be vast opposition to it in the community. Wikipedia is free, every
single part of it. When we contribute, we contribute free material.
Anything else is unacceptable, even for the meta-pages.

I don't know about the rest of you, but this is the way I feel at
least. And I think I'm not alone.

--Oskar