2008/11/3 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
- Later this month, we will post a re-licensing proposal for all
Wikimedia wikis which are currently licensed under the GFDL. It will be collaboratively developed on meta.wiki and I will announce it here. This re-licensing proposal will include a simplified dual-licensing proposition, under which content will continue to be indefinitely available under GFDL, except for articles which include CC-BY-SA-only additions from external sources. (The terms of service, under this proposal, will be modified to require dual-licensing permission for any new changes.)
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.
We _will_ propose to continue to permit GFDL 1.2-only media uploads for the forseeable future, to address concerns regarding strong and weak copyleft, until such concerns are fully resolved to the satisfaction of community members
No. We don't need to make the copyright situation more complex in fact we should be taking the opportunity to simplify it. As part of the switch over we should be freezeing all uploads of all images not under directly CC-BY-SA compatible licenses (FAL GFDL 1.2 only GPL LGPL).
FAL and GFDL 1.2 only are not uploaded in large enough amounts that we cannot absorb the loss.
GPL and LGPL are more of a problem
The strong weak copyright issues is best solved through negotiations with CC. That said with the migration of wikipedia to CC-BY-SA pretty much putting CC-BY-SA in the position of the grand unified free license it is likely that any opposition to a strong copyleft position will be reduced.