At 01:18 PM 8/10/2008, David Gerard wrote:

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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.

Is there any reason why they couldn't just say: "Version 1.3 of the GFDL is identical to CC-BY-SA"?

That would presumably meet the murky requirement that future versions of the GFDL have to be "in the same spirit" as the present one.

-Bennett