Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Hindi Lessons

Hindi Lessons
Reason: Unclear License

According to the introduction of Hindi Lessons. It was written as an entry at hindi.unilang.org, and the author was kind enough to grant permission to copy and freely modify the text under the GFDL.

I asked on Reading room/General and it turns out a GFDL only licence book isn't suitable for Wikibooks.

The talk page at Talk:Hindi Lessons indicates a more permissive agreement requiring just attribution, but I'm unsure if it's suitably documented. If true perhaps the book could remain?

--Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 01:07, 3 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Addition: I should also note that How Language Works has a similar problem, being based on material released under the GFDL 1.2 licence. Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 02:38, 3 February 2022 (UTC)


 * the reason these texts are GFDL is that, when they were created, the site was using a single GFDL license. The dual licensing only came later, when it was decided that the the requirement of including a full copy of the license with documents was burdensome for wiki pages. See w:Wikipedia:Comparison of GFDL and CC BY-SA. As such they are likely to be perfectly legal. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 20:51, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Retracting my deletion requests in that case, glad the material can remain! Thanks for the explanation. Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 21:57, 3 February 2022 (UTC)