[Foundation-l] How will we handle the license migration for images/media?

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 03:01:20 UTC 2009


2009/2/28 Ryan Kaldari <kaldari at gmail.com>:
> It's my understanding from the relicensing FAQ that we will be dual
> licensing GFDL images in addition to text. It seems this will present
> a unique problem, however, since images and media files are licensed
> individually by the uploader rather than bulk licensed like Wikipedia
> text. How would the relicensing of these files actually be
> accomplished? I can imagine several approaches, none of them easy:
>
> I've added this issue as an open question to the relicensing FAQ page on meta.

Can be done through template and upload form modification for the most
part. GFDL 1.2 only images are an issue (as are FAL) but they can be
dealt with when the time comes. Cleanup can also be addressed at a
later.


-- 
geni




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