Re: GFDL 1.3

replying to correct myself:

Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran@...> writes:
> This is a non-issue for Wikipedia because each contributor owns their
> contributions

No, I seem to be wrong.  The licence says:

  "The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site
   under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009,
   provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.

so the licence gives the site operating the choice to change the licence of
content which is owned by the users.

Knowing FSF, I assume they got sufficient reassurances from Wikimedia
Foundation that they won't abuse this power.  So to assess the risks, the
question to ask is what other sites (GFDL'd wikis) are eligible for this
change of licence?

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