[WikiEN-l] Acknowledgements sections on articles

[geni]

On 02/04/2008, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Don't have to. The FSF can modify and they have done so. And since
that time people have not been releasing their edits under 1.1.

>The idea of free
>  information shouldn't stop people from always using a single license
>  to their materials and modifications of their materials.

You are free to run a project following those principles. Changes in
both statute and case law make it impractical and learning from
experience make it undesirable.

>  What were the major changes between 1.1 and 1.2 that wikipedia deemed
>  necessary to change the entire license over btw?
>
>
>  Peter

No reason not to change over.


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geni