2008/8/10 Bennett Haselton <bennett(a)peacefire.org>rg>:
Thanks. So just to be clear, does that mean it's
still technically
illegal to copy an article from Wikipedia and republish it under
CC-BY-SA? But once an FDL version is released that's compatible with
CC-BY-SA, it'll no longer be illegal?
That's the present situation, and that's the idea.
(So, for people to start copying Wikipedia content to
Knol,
presumably two things would have to happen -- Knol would have to
allow CC-BY-SA as a publishing option, and FDL would have to be
revised to be CC-BY-SA-compatible.)
Yep.
Since it was announced in December 2007 that they
planned to make the
FDL compatible with CC-BY-SA, does that mean they're still working on
it? Are their pro bono lawyers just really careful with things like
this, so they usually take a long time before coming out with a new
version of FDL that meets a specific goal?
They are slooooooow. Because, obviously, they have to be sure they've
gotten it *exactly* right. Wikimedia is by far the largest collection
of GFDL material, but it certainly isn't the only one.
- d.