From: Jimmy Wales Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:28 PM delirium@rufus.d2g.com wrote:
Now whether Wikipedia would like to use the FDL is another matter.
But
we currently do, and changing our license seems pretty impossible at
this point.
That much is true. We've discussed before making some kind of licensing change, but it's really a lot of trouble, particularly when *I* think that most of the alleged violations (such as the one you're talking about here) are not actually violations at all.
Fortunately there *is* the possibility of an out, that being to convince FSF to amend the GFDL usefully. (e.g. to allow people to use the equiv. creative-commons license)
They're obviously skeptical of doing so, but as statistically the only website to use the GFDL, our opinions and needs have validity.