Daniel Mayer wrote:
We can discuss the possibility of changing license terms when somebody finds an impressive non-FDLd free text resource whose copyright owner declines our nicely-worded request to grant us a GFDL license of their work.
No we can't; it'll be too late then.
It'll also be too late when we find a textbook project like ours -- that is, one with thousands of different copyright holders -- which is sympathetic to release under the GNU FDL but practically can't.
And it'll be too late when a textbook project like ours finds /us/ -- you consistently ignore this reverse possibility. This is in fact the situation that I worry about most; not our practical problems in having to rewrite what /we/ want, but our unethical (I share much of RMS's ethical opinions) decision to restrict /their/ use of our material.
-- Toby