2008/11/3 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
2008/11/3 geni geniice@gmail.com:
Not remotely acceptable. We accept duel licensing of images because we already have to carry a significant overhead in terms of juggling copyright conditions due to other causes. You want to add that situation to text? That is not a good idea. Duel licenses are at best a necessary evil. There is no benefit in extending the situation to text. A clean switchover must be the objective.
While I tend to agree with you, the FSF has required us to agree to these compromise dual licensing terms before releasing the FDL 1.3. This is a separate agreement between the FSF and WMF. We'll proceed to a referendum under these terms.
I'm not sure it was wise of the WMF to make that kind of commitment without consulting the community. Allowing an external body to dictate procedure on Wikimedia projects is a big deal that I expect a large portion of the community to be very unhappy with. There may not really have been an alternative if FSF weren't willing to budge (public pressure might have helped there - if there were NDAs then the mistake was in signing them), but the community should still have been consulted.