On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Isn't this already too late? You can only dual
license copyleft material if all
> copyright holders agree to it. The people who have posted stuff so far on
> Wikipedia have posted it under GFDL exclusively.
I'm sure that most of them have never given any
serious attention to the
licence details.
I can't believe I'm hearing this. I don't know what to say.
I remember reading about how we're going to one day plug all history back into
all articles, from the earlier software phases, because if we didn't we would
be violating the license terms set by our contributers (GFDL).
And now we're just going to brush it all aside? I'm outraged.
> If we want to combine different licenses, we have
to track down all
> contributers for each relevant article, and get their permisson. Otherwise,
> we're breaking GFDL.
Wouldn't that be just a little unrealistic? A
more common sense
solution would be better.
Yes, this is unrealistic. This is why I said that it is probably too late to
begin dual licensing Wikipedia content (except in the case of new articles).
The more common sense solution (in that it is a realistic endeavour) is of
course to remove all quotes. Frankly, there aren't that many there to begin
with.
-- Daniel