[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Wikipedia license change

[Eric Christensen]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:40, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 05/29/2009 08:59 PM, Eric Christensen wrote:
>> Just to summarize my concerns to the f-d-l...
>>
>> My concern with changing licenses is what happens to the
>> already-downstream derivatives of our works since we are going to
>> change the rules.  I think we need to look at how to move this forward
>> in a way that isn't going to leave those works stranded and possibly
>> in violation of the new license.
>
> Who are the downstream users?
>
> Rahul

We don't know.  Anyone could have taken our words and used them,
according to the "old" license, without telling us.

Eric