Simetrical wrote:
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
"require" seems unlikely. What difference is there between a project created today and one created a year ago from a legal standpoint? Do you mean to say it's more convenient to wait?
I vaguely recall something I'd heard in the past, either from a draft of the FDL 1.3 or a rumor or something. There was to be a new clause that went something like this:
"If the covered work was created principally by public collaboration on a website editable by anyone, which was created before the date June 25, 2005 [pulling that date out of nowhere], the licensee may choose to use the work under the terms of the GNU Wiki License instead of this license."
I have no knowledge of whether this is in fact going to be part of the license, but I do know that something like it has been requested on some other lists, so it's quite possible. The worry among some not-Wikipedia GFDL users is that any sort of open-ended "you can migrate licenses via a wiki" clause would encourage creative abuse, with stuff that was really intended by its authors to be and stay GFDL ending up getting migrated against their wishes. Putting a time limit on the migration (especially one that's already past) limits the amount of creative license migration anyone can do.
-Mark