On 22/11/2007, Mike Godwin <mnemonic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Horning writes:
> Such a license change (barring massive
cooperation from the Free
> Software Foundation to change the GFDL itself using the "or later
> version" escape clause) would require all contributions to be removed
> from Wikipedia by those authors who didn't agree to the change.
We are, of course, assuming cooperation from FSF as a
prerequisite
for all this. As Jimbo says, this whole discussion is a product of
three-way negotiations between FSF, CC, and WMF. If FSF suddenly
said, hey, we're never going to do anything to support migration to a
version of GFDL that looks like a version of CC-BY-SA, we could stop
this whole discussion immediately.
What I've been telling people is that if you don't trust the FSF Board
to be custodians of the meaning of GFDL, then you have bigger problems
with the GFDL than anything Wikimedia Foundation could create. Me, I
trust the FSFers.
Yes. There's no plans to do this other than using the "or later" clause.
And if you (you, Robert) didn't mean "or later" as well ... what did
you think you were doing when you clicked "submit"?
- d.