On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
So if the community decides dual-licensing is dumb, is that the end of it? GFDL Forever?
In the case that the community says so, then we probably would be stuck forever, yes. However, I have a hard time seeing that the community would be against it, unless some huge fly was found in the ointment that nobody's thought about yet.
I know that the en.wikibooks community has been begging for this for a while, going so far as to try a homebrew dual-licensing scheme on a per-book basis. Needless to say it didn't work out well, but there is still plenty of sentiment that this is a way we want to go as a community. I know other communities have had plenty of complaints about interoperability with CC-BY-SA content as well, and I can't imagine that nit-pickery from the habitual naysayers is going to stop this train.
If I were a betting man, I would put my money on some kind of migration being approved and implemented before August 2009, especially if the community at large is given a fair say on the issue.
--Andrew Whitworth