[WikiEN-l] Unnecessary fork update

Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 17:33:21 UTC 2006


On 1/16/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like the doll-collector's wiki is saying "bugger Wikipedia" and
> picking a CC license specifically to maintain incompatibility -
> they've been put off the idea of Wikipedia *that badly*.
>
> So that's two forks now. Yay!
>
> The thing is, this is one I just happened to know about. How many
> others have happened that we don't know about? Just how bad is our
> image out there after the webcomics debacle?
>
> (And I understand a Wired News reporter is sniffing around the
> webcomics debacle. Fantastic. Perhaps if it becomes a *public*
> embarrassment something might actually get done about the AFD
> problem.)

So we've got two options:

1. Fix AFD.
2. Bludgeon Stallman into making the GFDL compatible with CC.

I really don't know which is the more futile undertaking, at this point ;-)

Kirill Lokshin



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