According to my research the initial set of Creative Commons licenses was published on December 16, 2002, which is when wikipedia was still very new, I sopposed thos licences were still in a early stage of development, and wern't very well known. One of my concerns with GNU FDL is the Pioneer-12 incident, Pioneer-12 was willing to licence his contributions to articles under GFDL but insisted that his posts on talkpages were his own, and claimed the right to do so because he has the copyright law on his side. As I understand it, he was really trying to pull off the impossible, because if a wikipedia mirror were to copy talkpages as well as articles, it were fully GFDL compliant, and Pioneer-12 sued them, guess who would lose. As I understand it, there is aclick-through language, you submit changes by clicking the save button, which in turn translates into click-through language as something like this:
Copyright (c) YEAR WIKIPEDIA
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;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".
This cannot be overidden by intention, I've heard that according to laws on the internet, any form on a web page is treated just like a normal contract, and that hitting the submit button is essentially signing your name on that contract, thus everytime that any user submits changes, they agree (whether they are meaning it or not) to the disclaimers on the page editor.
I also wonder if anyone would like email confirmation to be required to edit pages, this would help minimise spam, it would also help with personal attacks, by moving personal debates to email.
-Josh
Odell
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