On 12/25/05, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The license and the way it is interpreted has been
discussed and
explained to the people that are involved with the license. The GPL is
first going to be amended and then it will be the GFDL that will be
modernised. The reason why is simple; the GFDL was not created with
projects like Wikipedia in mind, it was intended for documentation
associated with GPL software.
Perhaps it will, but the foundation will not be able steal credit from
the actual authors of the works in Wikipedia for itself, at least not
without a legal fight. Most quality works in Wikipedia are the work of
a small number of authors per work, not these massively collaborative
efforts as has been misrepresented to the free software foundation.
As such it would be ill advised to suggest to people that they do not
need to provide attribution, so if thats what you were implying with
you message I suggest you amend your words. Wikipedia will not fall
under CC wiki like terms so long as I and others who care about the
moral rights of authors have the financial means to prevent it.