Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-655-20130922200053/@comment-655-20130923085101

@TK-999: Yeah, and the proper method to change Terms Of Use is to let users know, and not add some pretty big game-changers and hope that they won't be noticed anytime soon.

@Iggyvolz: You are mistaken. If I published some content under a "CC-BY-NC" license, and I haven't waived any of my rights, then all derivative works of my work (which, as I said, encompasses all article revisions of an article after I have edited it) need to be published under that same CC-BY-NC license again. If Wikia wants to ask other editors to release their content under a different license, they first need to make sure that those editors even can do that - which means that they mustn't base their edits on stuff that I have licensed in the past. They actually need to remove my edits from their database if they want to do this - not the other way around.

Having said that, I had another look at the actual license and found these (8.d and 8.e, respectively):


 * No term or provision of this License shall be deemed waived and no breach consented to unless such waiver or consent shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged with such waiver or consent.
 * This License constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Work licensed here. There are no understandings, agreements or representations with respect to the Work not specified here. Licensor shall not be bound by any additional provisions that may appear in any communication from You. This License may not be modified without the mutual written agreement of the Licensor and You.

To me, this pretty clearly states that Wikia can not unilaterally call for a waiver of individual terms of this license. They do not have my written consent (nor do they have written consent from any other MA contributor), so anything they add to their Terms Of Use regarding that is just a waste of disk space.