On 23/11/2007, Robert Horning <robert_horning(a)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!
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk