[Foundation-l] Re: A license for the Ultimate Wiktionary

Sun May 22 00:26:48 UTC 2005

Michael Snow (wikipedia at earthlink.net) [050522 10:19]:

> The possibility of rewriting content we're unable to relicense is 
> interesting to consider. It strikes me that one potential use for Magnus 
> Manske's article validation tool would be to flag revisions when an 
> article has been rewritten so as to remove the content that we can't 
> secure permission to relicense. But anyway, if people are serious about 
> actually relicensing, the longer they wait, the harder it will be.

In practical terms, I think it verges on the negligibly likely. Mozilla
only relicensed because a lack of GPL compatibility was hurting their
interactions with others and embeddability; I can't see Wikipedia wanting
to relicense without an imminent pressing need to.

- d.