[Wikipedia-l] Re: image copyright

Tue Feb 17 00:31:31 UTC 2004

Erik Moeller wrote:

>I see three possibilities:
>1) Waste much of our time arguing with Anthony about his FDL  
>interpretation, possibly hire a lawyer, possibly go to court, possibly  
>lose.
>2) Name clear conditions for how individual articles must be licensed. If  
>Anthony refuses to comply, permanently ban him from editing Wikipedia.
>3) Do nothing.
>
>Option 2) seems the wisest to me. Anthony is clearly a troll who, like a  
>vampire, wants to suck energy from us and our project. We should not give  
>him what he wants. His "fork" seems to have no intention other than to  
>piss people off. It will likely fade away into the darkness as he himself  
>does.
>  
>
I guess I'm confused about option 2.  How does banning him from editing 
Wikipedia in any way damage his ability to fork it?

-Mark