On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/9 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
My complaint was that the WMF was (and still is) copying and distributing
my
copyrighted content in a manner other than that expressly provided under
any
license I have granted them.
I doubt it. You are probably considering the wrong part of the GFDL with regards to what they are doing. Suffice to say the foundation isn't actually required to credit you in any way shape or form with regards to the dumps (since they are effectively verbatim copying and since there are no cover texts section 3 doesn't place any significant further requirements).
The WMF is not just making and distributing verbatim copies of my works. Not effectively, not even remotely close to it. The only time they're even arguably distributing verbatim copies of my works would be for articles where I am the last author or for historical revisions.
You may not like this but that would be inconsistent with your claims
to prefer the GFDL over CC-BY-SA 3.0.
I haven't actually claimed to prefer the GFDL over CC-BY-SA 3.0. I've implied that I prefer the GFDL over the GFDL *and* CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Frankly, I don't understand CC-BY-SA 3.0. It isn't clear what it means. There seems to be a belief that it can be interpreted to only require attribution of 5 authors, and I don't like that at all. Further, there seems to be a belief that it can be interpreted to only require "a link" to such attribution, and that's even worse. And then, topping it off, there are some who feel it can be interpreted to only require the printing of a URL as "attribution". And Creative Commons is working closely with these people. So even if CC-BY-SA 3.0 doesn't mean that, there's a good chance CC-BY-SA 4.0 will.
I don't know if these interpretations are correct or not. But I'd rather not chance it. Especially since if they're not correct, there's not much point in switching to CC-BY-SA in the first place.
You want compatibility, why not add a clause to CC-BY-SA 3.0 letting people relicense that content under the GFDL? That'll achieve compatibility just as well. Obviously you think there are some "onerous requirements" in the GFDL that make that unacceptable. Of course, if that's the case, and these requirements really are so onerous, why doesn't the FSF remove them from the GFDL? Maybe the FSF doesn't actually find them to be onerous after all?