2009/5/28 David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>om>:
The solution, as with international affairs, is
tolerance. In this
case, the practical aceptance of all free licenses as equivalent,
regardless of lthe licensing zealots.
Comparing Affero to just about any other free license shows that to be
completely false.
Free culture arose to permit
reuse, and should continue that way. We should simply have told the
FSF: At least when dealign with text, we regard all CC-BY licenses as
compatible with each other and with GFDL, and therefore there's
nothing that needs to be negotiated.
It's a great way to get reuses sued by discruntled wikipedians but has
no useful function. The foundation doesn't hold the copyright on very
much GFDL or CC-BY-SA material so it's opinion is of little wider
importance. The courts on the other hand....
Anyone who wants to use our
content
There isn't really any. The foundation is not a major IP holder.
under any such license is welcome, and we will treat
yours
similarly, under the presumption that any court would regard the
differences as insignificant.
The odds of a court coming to that ruling are effectively zilch since
it would cause serious issues with the wider legal landscape in
relation to copyright licensing.
--
geni