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