--- Peter Jaros rjaros@ShaysNet.com wrote:
How stuck are we to the license? If you're saying it could be possible to change it, could it be possible to make our own license? Or is there another license out there that's just what we want?
We are stuck with it until/if the FSF writes an out clause in the yet-to-be-written (or even planned) 2.0 version. Since we state that we use the GNU FDL 1.2 or "any later version", it is very possible to change *if* the FSF allows it.
Drafting our own license would not be ideal, but we should have a hand in drafting a GNU FCL.
RMS threatened to start GNUpedia if Nupedia didn't change to the GNU FDL (and Wikipedia inherited Nupedia's license decision). The least he and the FSF can do is help us migrate to a better license since the FDL has proved to be controversial, overly complicated, and require too much of downstream users (what we require of downstream users - a direct linkback and mention of and link to the GNU FDL is a *very* loose interpretation of what the license really requires).
The FDL was created to serve the needs of free software documentation, and, by admission of the FSF, is not free in the same sense free software is free (esp when invariant texts are used).
-- mav
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