For the record, I disagree that "the way we are going to do this is different from what the license says anyway" at least as the starting point. I think it should be very carefully thought about if there were a conscious decision to violate the license explicitly. That said there is of course a gray area, where legitimate disagreements can be had about what the license entails, but that is a completely different issue.
It is true that there has been the "nod and a wink" understanding between FSF and WMF about how some things are left unresolved.
But that absolutely need not translate into the CC-BY-SA world, since there are no *real* points of significant obstacle to fully complying with its provisions quite exhaustively.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, Sure but when the way we are going to do this is different from what the license says anyway.. and this is the implication, then there is no point in throwing the child away with the bathing water as you propose. So imho we should compare the two licenses and in essence we already agree that the GFDL is not suitable to our needs so consequently we will do well by making the switch as per your own argument. Thanks, GerardM
2009/2/18 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
2009/2/18 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, The way I read Michael, it is an open issue never mind what license we choose. It is therefore an issue whether we stay with the GFDL or not. It
is
in my opinion weird to allow arguments that have no bearing whatsoever on the subject make a difference.
I think we all accept that we currently interpret the GFDL very loosely (probably to the point of not strictly following it), since it doesn't really make sense for what we're doing with it. If we're going to switch to a new license we ought to do it with the intention of following it properly. That means we need to know what following it properly entails before we can know if we want to switch.
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