[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: w to properly use articles from an outside GFDL source?

Sun May 30 21:54:00 UTC 2004

"Ulrich Fuchs" <mail at ulrich-fuchs.de> schrieb:

> Exactly - our only way out of the license issues we currently have is to 
> persuade the FSF to change it - a new license would apply to all *existing* 
> articles without requireing an additional statement from the authors. 
> However, if I remember correctly, we had some discussion in Germany some 
> yeras ago that this particular point of the GNU Licenses (that the author 
> license it's wark under whatever license the FSF will change it's current one 
> into) would not be legal according to german law. I don't know if and how 
> this was settled and if that's still an issue; I just wanted to mention that 
> we possibly could run into difficulties here. But it's a very minor risk in 
> my opinion, so it should not stop us from these talks with the FSF.

Well, if you want an even worse legal problem: In the Netherlands it seems
creating a published work cooperatively in the Wiki way is illegal - a writer
cannot sign away their right to object to their work being published in a
changed fashion.

Andre Engels