[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

Mon Sep 10 01:36:27 UTC 2007

On 9/9/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > Agreed, but not applicable, as what would be ethical would be to start
> > following the GFDL.
> >
> > Of course, from a legal standpoint, that'd be irrelevant, since the
> > WMF has already had its rights terminated under the GFDL (see section
> > 9).
>
> WMF is not a publisher so it's rights are irrelevant.

True, I suppose, in which case every single person who has ever edited
a Wikipedia article has had their rights terminated under section 9.

> Wikipedia
> documents are within the GFDL as long as you consider the entire
> document (the article text, the history and various other bits) rather
> than a single page.

Perhaps you could point me to the title page which lists the five
principal authors of the Document, then.