On 0, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> scribbled:
On 9/10/07, Axel Boldt <axelboldt(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
The Wikimedia projects should switch from the
GFDL to the CC-BY-SA
license.
I'm going to have to quickly kill this discussion.
The Foundation is in ongoing discussions with the FSF & CC about
resolving issues with the GFDL & ensuring better compatibility between
licenses. We will likely present one or multiple decision paths to the
community soon for further discussion. This is not one of them, as we
do not have to resort to a legally risky move if a newer version of
the GFDL is released which meets our needs.
Please have a little more patience; we've been working on this issue
for many months & we've been making significant progress.
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Erik
Erik, I think in large part people are thinking along the lines of relicensing because
there is so little appreciable and publicly visible progress being made. It's great
that the WMF has been working on this, but it'd also be great if there were more
occasional mentions that something is indeed being done. For example, is relicensing under
the GSFDL an avenue that is seriously being pursued? I know there have been people saying
for literally years that WP could convert to GSFDL, that the FSF was specifically working
to make it possible, and that such a conversion would be desirable - but the last comment
I remember was White telling me to be patient and wait for a public announcement Real Soon
Now. What other avenues are being discussed? etc.
(On a side note, I think the above situation is exactly analogous to SUL and Stable
version - perhaps progress is being made in private, but the rest of us can't see it
and it looks to us like frustrating stagnation; even worse, "bad money drives out
good" and the community may go from ignorance to outright misinformed as to the
current state of affairs.)
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