On 12/8/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
My crystal-ball prediction is that someday we'll end up with a modified (though GFDL-compatible) license, WFDL or something like that, more tailored to our needs. But of course we don't know all of our current much less future needs, so it would be hasty to worry about that too much now, I think.
Lawrence Lessig, working through Creative Commons, annouced on cc-lessigletter that he is "launching a project to facilitate interoperability among sufficiently compatible license types." I'd strongly recommend the newsletter to anyone interested in these sorts of things. It's a once a week letter so it's low traffic and usually fairly interesting. The last edition talked about how "Erik Möller argues against the use of a Creative Commons NonCommercial (NC) license" and how "content licensed under a NC license can't be included within Wikipedia."
As an aside, I'm not sure trying to make MediaWiki bend backwards to accommodate the GFDL's more intricate interpretations is the right way to go either.
FF
I don't really think so either. I was more responding to Ant's concern that about being "strip[p]ed of one's authorship". Forgetting the GFDL completely, there should *still* be a place where people can go to see a list of the authors of an article (without sifting through 10,000 lines of history just to see the 200 authors, or writing a bot to do so). If we're going to make this, we might as well add in the years and the titles and make it GFDL compatible to boot.
Anthony