Hello,
The relicensing process is underway. This means we have only 2 months to help GFDL wikis that want Wikipedia compatibility to follow suit. The clause that allows GFDL wikis to be relicensed to CC-BY-SA 3 expires on August 1 of this year.
I am crossposting this from the licensing thread on foundation-l because it is important and time sensitive.
While the intent behind the August 1 sunset clause provision was to "offer[] all wiki maintainers ample time to make their decision", this has not yet worked out in practice. Many GFDL-licensed wiki maintainers haven't looked at GFDL 1.3, aren't fully aware of Wikipedia's decision to relicense, and have no idea there are hard deadlines involved; nor have they though through the implications for their current contributions to / reuse of Wikipedia. (I myself had plans to organize an import of Medpedia content into WP before realizing that this is not possible unless they choose to relicense -- even though as of today both are GFDL wikis.)
Please help add to the list and contact those that you know: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GFDL_relicensing
So what does another wiki which uses Wikipedia material or sometimes imports material to Wikipedia have to do to accomplish relicensing?
Fred Bauder