[WikiEN-l] Acknowledgements sections on articles

[Eugene van der Pijll]

Peter Ansell schreef:
> It may be deemed to be intentionally misleading to unilaterally change
> the set of allowed license versions without making it clear that some
> contributions *and their future modifications* are clearly allowed to
> be downloaded under version 1.1 as wikipedia is not given copyright
> owner status in order to modify this clause.

This is not true. If person A licenses his text as "GFDL 1.1 or
later", person B is allowed to accept that text under the terms of GFDL
1.2, and to modify it, and to release his modified version under GFDL
1.2.

Person A cannot force person B to release the modified text under all of
the licenses that person A released his versions under. Otherwise, dual
licensing would add restrictions; not create more options for downstream
users.

Eugene