I drafted this letter to RMS to seek his blessing on a change to the terms of the GNU FDL which would allow some sharing between the GNU FDL and other copyleft licenses. Lets see if we can get a consensus on this so we can send it out to him.
--Karl
To: "rms" at "stallman" period "org"
Dear Richard,
A quick question. I am writing on behalf of the Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation with a licensing question. The Wikipedia has grown to be the largest resource of open content, copylefted material known. As you know, all of its content is licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
Recently, other open content, copyleft licenses have come into use, most notably some Creative Commons licenses.
I am interested in a level of intercompatibility between the GNU FDL and these other copyleft licenses. The goals are to preserve the copyleft nature of the material while allowing material to be shared under certain circumstances and conditions with other projects using these paralell licenses.
My interest lies in adding a clause to the terms of the GNU FDL license that would in some way allow the sharing of materials exclusively with other copyleft licenses. You of course would have to be in agreement with all end changes as well as the process to get there.
Thank you very much for your attention, Karl Wick
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Have you sent this yet? I'm drafting something similar to send in a mass mailing to RMS, Larry Lessig, and other notables.
Karl Wick wrote:
I drafted this letter to RMS to seek his blessing on a change to the terms of the GNU FDL which would allow some sharing between the GNU FDL and other copyleft licenses. Lets see if we can get a consensus on this so we can send it out to him.
--Karl
To: "rms" at "stallman" period "org"
Dear Richard,
A quick question. I am writing on behalf of the Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation with a licensing question. The Wikipedia has grown to be the largest resource of open content, copylefted material known. As you know, all of its content is licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
Recently, other open content, copyleft licenses have come into use, most notably some Creative Commons licenses.
I am interested in a level of intercompatibility between the GNU FDL and these other copyleft licenses. The goals are to preserve the copyleft nature of the material while allowing material to be shared under certain circumstances and conditions with other projects using these paralell licenses.
My interest lies in adding a clause to the terms of the GNU FDL license that would in some way allow the sharing of materials exclusively with other copyleft licenses. You of course would have to be in agreement with all end changes as well as the process to get there.
Thank you very much for your attention, Karl Wick
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Karl Wick wrote:
I drafted this letter to RMS to seek his blessing on a change to the terms of the GNU FDL which would allow some sharing between the GNU FDL and other copyleft licenses. Lets see if we can get a consensus on this so we can send it out to him.
First suggestion: Never say "open" to Richard Stallman. Say "free".
More generally: If you put this on a wiki page (on textbook or meta), then we can all edit this more easily together. ^_^
-- Toby
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