On Monday 02 June 2003 00:48, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen 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.
Which doesn't make it better. If you want to relicense content you have to
have permission of all copyright holders, this is what the license says.
Sorry, but there is no way around it.
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?
Yes indeed, this is far from being possible. There are only very few projects
which went through all struggle in order to achieve a relicense, the biggest
I am aware of was (related to?) the Mozilla project. For a project of the
size of Wikipedia this simply won't work.
A more common sense solution would be better.
The "common sense" solution is to remove all content which makes license
problems and this is all "fair use" stuff. If we don't remove this stuff we
will again and again have license problems. Believe me, I have watched the
[[KDE]] project for a long time and I am very well aware of years of license
problems & battles and I really don't want to see the same mess here again.
If we have a license we have to take this seriously. We can't simply say "mmh,
I don'l like the consequences, let's forget about the license". Sorry.
best regards,
Marco
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Marco Krohn
Theoretical Physics
University of Hannover