On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
But there is an additional clause in contributing content to
Wikipedia, that it be contributed under the GFDL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright#Contributors.27_rights_a...
If you contribute text directly to Wikipedia, you thereby license it
to the public for reuse under CC-BY-SA and GFDL (unversioned, with
no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
"If you want to import text that you have found elsewhere or that you
have co-authored with others, you can only do so if it is available
under terms that are compatible with the CC-BY-SA license. ***You do
not need to ensure or guarantee that the imported text is available
under the GNU Free Documentation License, unless you are its sole
author.***"
***emphasis mine
That's the second paragraph of your own link... given that the content
is already CC-BY-SA, it should just be importable straight into
wikipedia (doesn't need to be GFDL), unless I'm missing something?
Or to put it more clearly:
* it is my understanding that all content in the fedora wiki is CC-BY-SA
* it is my understanding that wikipedia can accept all CC-BY-SA
content. (GFDL is no longer required.)
therefore:
* it is my understanding that all content in the fedora wiki can be
exported over to wikipedia.
Quite possibly I'm wrong on all of these; it is late and I am tired :)
Luis