On 10/09/2007, Axel Boldt axelboldt@yahoo.com wrote:
I realize that this opt-out procedure is not perfectly clean from a legalistic standpoint, but neither is our current distortion of the GFDL.
In any plausible situation where the GFDL is viewed as valid at all, this is more "flagrantly wrong" rather than "not perfectly clean". You can't simply reappropriate people's intellectual property and declare that henceforth it will be used in a way they didn't consent to...
...this is, you know, why we have copyright laws.
There are long-term plans to gradually converge the licenses, and all our licensed material has that handy "or any later version" clause allowing for evolution in this regard. I'm not sure throwing it all away for Magic Change Now Please is productive.