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