2009/5/28 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
Samuel Klein wrote:
As much as anything else it is the short time frame that will look pushy. Wikipedia went through a lot of debate *before* the switch, and
The timeframe is a problem, absolutely.
If we were so fortunate as to have that as the only problem, there would be nothing to prevent the WMF Board from simply extending the deadline.
The WMF didn't set the deadline, the FSF did.
the internal debates of others should not matter less. As I understand what is being said they will still be able to import from WMF projects;
For a limited time - until some bit of cc-sa material is incorporated into a given article. In a matter of months or years they will no longer be able to import text from the latest pages; they won't be able to choose then to relicense, because it will no longer be possible under GFDL 1.3.
Who is going to stop them? Take this too far and it could drift into the realm of anti-trust legislation.
Anti-trust? What does this have to do with anti-trust?