Re: Legal question

Technically, there is a possibility that the user is using special script to 
post data to Wikipedia, much like some bot does. If that is the case, then 
the user is not clicking the button.

It would be better to ask on her talk page rather than to assume that the 
user is double licensing.

Tomos

>From: Anthony DiPierro <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Wikilegal-l] Legal question
>Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:12:12 -0500

>Sure.  Ey owns the copyright on contributions, and can license them under 
>anything ey wants.  Eir contributions are still licensed under the GFDL, as 
>ey agreed to that when clicking the submit button (of course we can't 
>really prove this, so if ey wanted to claim ey never actually clicked the 
>submit button, there's really nothing we could do about it).
>
>A
>
>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

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