GFDL 1.3

Alex Hudson home at alexhudson.com
Mon Nov 3 22:37:53 UTC 2008


Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
>> If people choose GFDL, it's pretty bloody 
>> obvious (to me) that the relaxed CC-BY-SA license isn't what they wanted.
>>     
>
> This is a non-issue for Wikipedia because each contributor owns their
> contributions - not the Wikimedia Foundation.  There can be no hostile
> change of licence there.
>   

What does copyright ownership have to do with the point I raised?

Are you seriously saying that someone can't now arbitrarily relicense 
Wikipedia content as CC-BY-SA?

Cheers,

Alex.



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