On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
I don't know if it's written down or not, but that email makes it fairly public. From what I can tell, it was just a compromise made during the negotiations.
I guess, although if it is written I'd be interested in exactly what was promised.
The reasons are fairly obvious - the FSF wants people to still be using their license and the WMF felt the need to compromise, so agreed to it.
If the FSF wants people to still be using their license [for Wikipedia], why would the FSF compromise?
Do you think the FSF is allowing Wikipedia to switch to CC-BY-SA even though they think the GFDL is a better license, for Wikipedia?
There's gotta be more to it than that.