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

Sat May 29 19:56:27 UTC 2004

--- Tomos at Wikipedia <wiki_tomos at hotmail.com> wrote on WikiEN-l:
> Mav, you are right in that the effect is limited because we cannot 
> retroactively apply the second license to past edits. But if we consider the 
> effect, it seems it is still better to introduce it than not, and we would 
> do just as Electicology suggested:

Sorry, it is simply not possible to create a derivative dual licensed work from
a GFDL-only licensed article. Doing so would be a violation of the copyright of
everyone who submitted the GFDL-only text. Dual licensing would also make it
impossible to accept any new GFDL-only text. 

We are stuck with the GFDL as is until the FSF makes changes to that license.
Let's concentrate on improving the license we have - Jimmy has already stated
that the FSF and CC people are interested in this type of thing. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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