On 23/11/2007, Robert Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
I suppose I have. What has been suggested here by Mike and Andrew was not a modification of the GFDL to an updated version, but suggesting that some sort of community vote could happen here that would simply ignore that the GFDL even exists, and simply replacing the default license on all Wikimedia projects to something like CC-by-SA.
That was discussed... as a thought experiment, mainly to demonstrate what an awfully bad idea it was!
Quick recap of how this discussion came about -
* Side note about Citizendium * By the way, CZ is faffing over their license, they might pick -NC or something. * Noodling about CZ reusing WP content, or WP folding back in CZ derivative content * Hey, Wikipedia's nonprofit, couldn't we theoretically use NC material? * Yes, in theory, in practice no - the GFDL means we'd have to get all our content relicensed and we can't do that - we're "doomed by inertia to remain GFDL" * Technically, you know, we could sort of incrementally relicense to something indistinguishable from CC-BY-SA. * [everyone gets a bit lost]
The problem is that at each iteration the topic slipped a bit to the side, and it was rather easy to assume that at the last stage, someone was actually recommending declaring we were relicensing to CC-BY-NC or something equally unlikely!