And I can't see voting to approve the license switch until an analysis of dumps is included in the FAQ. That is how most re-users get the data, and what everyone ignores.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mike Godwin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Anthony writes: > >>> > >>> > Which part is unclear? The dumps contain my copyrighted work. You > >>> > have no > >>> > license to distribute them (you might have once had a license under > >>> > the > >>> > GFDL, but I explicitly and permanently terminated those rights over > >>> > 30 days > >>> > ago in an email to you). > >>> > >>> It was unclear to me that you believe you have the right to revoke the > >>> GFDL license you freely granted under copyright law. I'm unclear as > >>> to what legal theory could be relied upon to revoke a free license. > >>> > >> > >> I'm surprised you never learned that, but fortunately it's irrelevant. > >> Just reread section 9 of the GFDL. I find it rather astounding that you > >> don't know what it says. > >> > > > > Especially since it was one of the major changes (probably the second > > biggest) to GFDL 1.3. Seriously, how could you not be familiar with that > > change? > > The dump content is still handled under GFDL 1.2 as no migration has > been asserted. Hence the new clauses about notification and time > limits aren't (yet) relevant. > > I concur though that even under GFDL 1.2 many of the dumps fail to > comply with the license terms. > > -Robert Rohde > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- You have successfully failed! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
