Oldak Quill wrote:
There's something I've never understood about our use of the GFDL. I assume it is not the case that we are stuck with whatever version of the GFDL was around in September 2001? There must be some kind of provision in the text of the GFDL to automatically update the license to the latest version, am I right? If this isn't the case then we're as far from GFDL 1.3 as we are from CC-by-sa.
You're right, we're not stuck with the current GFDL. This isn't explicitly a feature of the GFDL, but is a result of the way people usually license their work under the GFDL, which is intended for exactly this sort of issue.
The en: Coyprights page states our license as follows: "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts."
So if the FSF published a Version 1.3, third parties could at their option choose to comply with that license instead of the current Version 1.2.
-Mark