GFDL 1.3: Wikipedia's exit permit

Posted Nov 6, 2008 9:37 UTC (Thu) by herodiade (guest, #52755)
Parent article: GFDL 1.3: Wikipedia's exit permit

> and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.

So all Wikipedia's content added between now and the relicensing resolution (in one month at best) must definitively remains GFDL-only ?

This clause seems to prevent any effective relicensing (esp. given that almost every important or large article in WP is edited more than once a month).

> content will continue to be indefinitely available under GFDL, except for
> articles which include CC-BY-SA-only additions from external sources

Then Wikimedia won't try to use the new GFDL clause as an "exit permit"?!

If I understand what this means, they will only use that move to allow a few articles to be CC-By-SA beside the bulk remaining GFDL? Odd.

GFDL 1.3: Wikipedia's exit permit

Posted Nov 6, 2008 17:56 UTC (Thu) by Simetrical (guest, #53439) [Link]

> So all Wikipedia's content added between now and the relicensing resolution (in one month at best) must definitively remains GFDL-only ?
>
> This clause seems to prevent any effective relicensing (esp. given that almost every important or large article in WP is edited more than once a month).

That clause only applies to content not originally published on a GFDL wiki. In practice, almost all legitimate new Wikipedia content is original to one Wikipedia or another, and most of the rest is public-domain. The only affected content should be incorporation of other GFDL works, like FOLDOC (unless that was already published on a wiki someplace), which will need to be put on hold until the decision is made one way or another.