[Licom-l] Deleted Content

Mon Apr 20 18:15:43 UTC 2009

Hello,

I would say that the relicense also count for deleted content, because 
we don't delete any content but we hide it for the most users.  I think 
we should handle deleted content just like all other content because it 
is still viewable for a lot of people. So this will be relicensed also..

Huib

Robert Rohde schreef:
> A question was asked at Meta that I can't answer.
>
> Does the relicensing proposal affect content that has been deleted?
> More importantly, if currently deleted pages were to be restored at
> some point after relicensing, which license(s) would apply to the
> restored content?
>
> Obviously the answer that makes life easy is to apply the relicensing
> to everything, but a close reading of the license migration terms
> makes me think that this may not be correct.
>
> To quote GFDL 1.3: "The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC
> contained in the site under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time
> before August 1, 2009, provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing."
>
> It feels like something of a stretch to claim that anything in our
> deleted archives would be "republish"-ed until it is also undeleted,
> which makes me wonder if the August 1st date implies a limit on when
> content must be restored in order to count it as part of the
> migration.
>
> It is uncommon for deleted content to be restored months after the
> fact, but if there is a license imposed limit here, it seems like
> something to pay attention to.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>   