Michael Snow wrote:
Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
changing the license of a running project is difficult, but not that much.
I'm skeptical about this claim, as I think it's much easier said than done.
One way that I can see is that the GNU FDL says that it allows redistribution "under this same version of the GNU FDL or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation" (paraphrased). As far as I'm aware, the FSF already recognises our difficult position. I think it would be only fair if they added something to the next version of the FDL allowing large-scale projects such as Wikipedia et al. to switch to a licence of their own, provided that this own licence fulfills certain criteria that make it "free".