On 3/6/08, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
As an aside, how is Wikipedia/GFDL and CC-by-SA coming along? Is Wikipedia waiting on GFDL and CC-by-SA to work out compatibility?
(CCing foundation-l, since folks there may be interested-)
Creative Commons is working actively with us on the "migration checklist": http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035677.html
They are internally discussing a draft statement of intent, and they've updated the CC frontpages to reference the Definition of Free Cultural Works. Plus, at this point there is a consensus between our two organizations that CC-BY-SA should function as a "strong copyleft" license, just not yet about the best way to achieve that.
On the FSF side, we're waiting for a version of the GFDL that has the migration language in it; hopefully this will be approved soon.
So, things are progressing. Given that there are multiple organizations involved, plus a commitment from us to only make the final step after consultation with the community, it's a complex process, but I'll hope we'll get there soon enough -- the incompatibility between CC-BY-SA and GFDL is a serious impediment for the free culture movement.