Cross post with Wikipedia-l (please respond there)
Delirium wrote:
I think this whole thing is unfortunate though, and it's becoming increasingly clear that the GFDL exactly as written isn't *really* what we want to do. I think most Wikipedians would be happier with a license that required Wikipedia to be credited rather than five authors. As it stands now, the republisher *has* to credit five authors, but does *not* have to credit Wikipedia at all. They could give it their own name and not mention its connection to us at all, as long as they list the authors properly. I think most of us would prefer the opposite -- that they be required to credit Wikipedia, and not be required to credit the individual authors. But this would require a license change, which may be impossible at this point.
1) This is more appropriate for Wikipedia-L 2) On Textbook-L we are already talking about persuading the GNU people make a FDL 2.0 that states that anything licensed under the GNU FDL 2.0 or later that does /not/ have invariant sections or cover texts, can also be licensed under a "GNU LFDL" which would be written more along the lines of the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License (and the LFDL would also explicitly state that any LFDL text can be used under the CC-Att/SA, the GNU FDL 2.0 or later or, of course, the LFDL). The idea is to dump the GNU FDL and its problems and relicense all Wikimedia content under the less restrictive and less complex LFDL. See the archives: Look for the "wikiversity licensing" thread at http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/textbook-l/2003-August/subject.html#star...
Which reminds me again; we really need a Wikimedia-l mailing list to talk about these types of Wikimedia-wide issues and also discus new project ideas like Wikiversity.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
See also: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/legalcode (a copyleft content license)
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