Philip is correct. The only way to escape the GDFL is to rewrite the entire encyclopedia under a different license - or get every single contributor to agree to reassign the content. Good luck with that.
The first approach actually seems viable to me - see http://www.panopedia.org :-)
With respect, Steven -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:StevenZenith http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/User:Steven
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:14:57 -0800 From: Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Escaping the GFDL -- can it be done? To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: 2261314F-E239-4F32-BC27-801E8EDFF942@philwelch.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Fastfission wrote:
It is just a thought I had -- the only one I could come up with which seems really plausible, aside from the possibility of the FSF being convinced to make updates to the GFDL (which I suspect they would be very dubious about, especially if the edits were primarily to benefit Wikipedia).
A revised version of the GFDL wouldn't help us because Wikipedia would still be licensed under the old version.
-- Philip L. Welch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch