On 1/9/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
On 10 Jan 2006, at 01:27, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Using the GFDLed stuff is more problematic. Using it was, in hindsight, probably the biggest mistake made by Wikipedia. It might be worth starting over from scratch just to get rid of the ties to the GFDL. Of course one can always hope that the FSF is finally going to fix that license, but we've been asking for years and it hasn't happened yet.
Out of interest whats your problem (and fix?).
Justinc
My problem is pretty much everything in the GFDL that isn't in CC-by-SA. See Section 4 of the GFDL - everything there except the requirement to attribute authors (and personally I don't even like that requirement, which is arguably too onerous for a wiki, but it's a compromise to at least keep in the spirit of the GFDL).
The perfect fix (that is at all possible) would be to create a new version of the GFDL which says something to the effect of "You may opt to apply the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 instead of this license." Of course, it's probably more realistic to expect more gradual changes.
Anthony