Re: Legal question

Optim wrote

> A new user in English Wikipedia wrote on his/her
> userpage that all of his/her contributions are
> licensed under the Creative Commons ShareAlike
> license. But in Wikipedia we use the GFDL. is
> this ok?
>
> --Optim

As it was explained to me (and I will be interested to hear from more
knowledgeable types than me whether this is correct) she can dual license
her work.  So future users can use either the cc-sa or GFDL.  *But* this
would only apply to her contributions, the composite article would remain
under GFDL.

So if she were to add a paragraph to an article, that paragraph could be
dual licensed and could be used under the cc-sa.  The article as a whole,
and any future versions of the article would remain GFDL.

But if she is *only* licencing under cc-sa then that is incompatable with
the GFDL (but then she can't be doing that, because by submitting she is
agreeing to licence under the GFDL).

It's a similar situation to those who release their contributions into the
public domain.

I'm thinking of similarly dual licensing my photos - but am not sure enough
yet that I understand all this correctly, so any corrections are most
welcome!

IANAL and all that..

sannse