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List:       wikipedia-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikipedia-l] can Wikipedia apply
From:       Francis Tyers <spectre () ivixor ! net>
Date:       2008-08-10 20:04:47
Message-ID: 1218398687.6216.80.camel () eki ! prompsit ! com
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El dom, 10-08-2008 a las 12:59 -0700, Bennett Haselton escribió:
> At 12:39 PM 8/10/2008, Francis Tyers wrote:
> >How can the updated FDL be said to apply to > that work if the 
> >authors didn't agree to it? Doesn't the licence text say "GFDL 1.2 
> >or later" ? "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify 
> >this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, 
> >Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software 
> >Foundation;"
> 
> Ah OK, that makes sense.
> 
> By the way, that means that if authors are submitting content to 
> Wikipedia, with the intention that nobody would be able to create a 
> derived work from their article and slap "all rights reserved" on it, 
> those authors are putting a lot of trust in the Free Software 
> Foundation, aren't they?  Since the FSF might someday release a 
> version of the FDL which allows third parties to create derivative 
> works published under "all rights reserved", like CC-BY does.  (Not 
> that the FSF is ever likely to do that, obviously, but it's still 
> unusual to have an agreement that one party can unilaterally change 
> at any time in the future.)

Yep, we all trust in the FSF :)

Fran


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