[Licom-l] Opt-out?

Wed May 27 20:40:20 UTC 2009

Could we also get an official recommendation for phasing out GFDL-only
options from the file upload forms? I think that would help a lot.

Ryan Kaldari

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2009/5/26 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
>> One of the unresolved issues in my estimation is how to react to
>> people who say: "Relicensing?  Not my work, no way, no how!".
>
> Yes: I don't think we can give any prescriptive answer, but for this
> and for some other licensing-related practical questions (including
> the "external content attribution" question), I think we should start
> coming up with a list of recommendations for Wikimedia communities.
> Communities would be free to implement these as they see fit.
>
> An example recommendation here could be to extend the courtesy of
> removal where doing so is reasonably possible without major
> disruption.
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