(Disclaimer: IANAL)
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?
Correct.
But once an FDL version is released that's
compatible with
CC-BY-SA, it'll no longer be illegal?
I think that's the plan. We'll have to wait and see.
(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.)
In addition to that, they would need to remove the requirement from
their terms of service that people give Google a much wider ranging
license.
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?
As far as I know, they're still working on it. I haven't heard
anything about it recently.