2008/11/3 geni geniice@gmail.com:
Not remotely acceptable. We accept duel licensing of images because we already have to carry a significant overhead in terms of juggling copyright conditions due to other causes. You want to add that situation to text? That is not a good idea. Duel licenses are at best a necessary evil. There is no benefit in extending the situation to text. A clean switchover must be the objective.
While I tend to agree with you, the FSF has required us to agree to these compromise dual licensing terms before releasing the FDL 1.3. This is a separate agreement between the FSF and WMF. We'll proceed to a referendum under these terms.
I do believe that this dual-licensing compromise should ideally allow both dual-licensing proponents and dual-licensing opponents to support the switch. A compromise always will leave everyone somewhat unhappy. So I hope that neither side will dig their feet in and help us move forward. We can revisit the dual-licensing situation in a year or two together with the FSF and see if it still is needed.