On 9/24/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
An interesting concept... But one should note that CC-BY for instance is a license which meets the requirements of "free content", and there are a number of people who would probably be opposed to such a relicensing.
Anthony
Precisely. Such an agreement would have to be very carefully worded, I mean if something is in the public domain it's free content, and I don't want my edits released into the public domain (not really under CC-BY either, atleast not without asking me). I trust WMF, but I don't want that to happen.
And this still doesn't solve the issue of all the old edits, you would have to relicense them too, otherwise you couldn't have a freer license for newer edits (the GFDL would prohibit it)
Let's face it: the only way were getting away from the GFDL is if FSF updates it. No other way is going to work.
--Oskar