On 4/14/08, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
You conveniently neglect the third alternative: to continue starting new projects under GFDL 1.2. We have no way of knowing whether the new agreement will be released within the next week, or whether the parties are so deadlocked as to put that agreement on a plane with vapourware.
There's no negotiation deadlock; they're just trying to fix some potential bugs with the new license before it's released. As I said, if for some reason things get stuck, we'll figure out another solution. Nobody is trying to pull a fast one here; quite the opposite: We're trying to protect the interests of the small wikis by doing this, as will become apparent when the license is released.
If you are really intent on a a transparent and open process, then that must allow for the possibility that the new licence or parts of it will not be acceptable to the community.
The parameters of any migration to FDL 1.3 and, by extension, CC-BY-SA have already been defined by the Board: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update
So, yes, there will be a community consultation process before any decision is made upon release of FDL 1.3. That being said: Due to the way the license works, any re-user will be able to treat content we currently host as being licensed under FDL 1.3.