Okay, so there is an agreement in principle to harmonize the GFDL's version of copyleft and that of CC-BY-SA.
Does that mean there will be two licenses, i.e. both a FSF license and CC license that reference each other and say they are interchangeable but still have different text and sponsorship? OR Does that mean that the FSF and CC plan to jointly write a single new license so that there is truly a uniting of both flavors of copyleft under a single document?
I realized this morning that I was assuming the former, i.e. two separate but equal licenses offering themselves as interchangeable; however, some other Wikipedians read the same announcements and assumed the latter, i.e. foretelling the creation of a new unified license that both parties must agree to.
At face value, creating a single united document seems obviously preferable in order to avoid confusion and possible conflicting interpretations, but it is not clear to me that creating a single license is actually the intention. The text on compatible licenses already embedded in CC-BY-SA 3.0seems to strongly suggest that CC has envisioned a future world of independent but interchangeable licenses.
Can anyone comment with surety which scenario is being worked towards?
-Robert A. Rohde
On Dec 2, 2007 12:04 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, so there is an agreement in principle to harmonize the GFDL's version of copyleft and that of CC-BY-SA.
Does that mean there will be two licenses, i.e. both a FSF license and CC license that reference each other and say they are interchangeable but still have different text and sponsorship? OR Does that mean that the FSF and CC plan to jointly write a single new license so that there is truly a uniting of both flavors of copyleft under a single document?
There's another possibility, that one of the two licenses will allow works under it to be relicensed under the other, but *not* vice-versa.
I'm going to try to keep myself from speculating here. It's gonna be really hard, though :).
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