>>>> "SV" == Steve Vertigo
<utilitymuffinresearch(a)yahoo.com> writes:
SV> I still dont see Evans point -- what would be the reason for
SV> breaking from GNU FDL at all?
Umm, here's the deal:
http://www.wikitravel.org/article/Wikitravel:Why_Wikitravel_isn%27t_GFDL
The basics: we want Wikitravel content to be useful as 1-2 page
fliers, printouts, etc. Tourist agencies, hotels could keep stacks on
the counter and pass them out in paper form. Helpful travellers could
keep copies of articles in their backpacks.
The GFDL requires also distributing the 8-10 page content of the GFDL
itself, as well as a changelog, with each article. If you distribute
more than 100 copies -- pretty reasonable, actually -- you also have
to distribute the "transparent" work, i.e. Wiki markup source
code. So if you have a stack of 100 photocopies of a one-page article
-- pretty reasonable -- you have to have 1000 pages of license text
and a stack of 100 floppy disks or CD-ROMs.
With the by-sa CC license, you have a copyright notice and the URL of
the license. Baddabingbaddaboom.
We need a print-it-and-go-license; the GFDL is much more oriented to
publishing bound books, where adding another 10 pages isn't really
that important.
SV> Its not the software that drives wiki -- its the open
SV> principle that drives the softwares development (no to mention
SV> the WP's resonance) -- the FDL is simply a way to codify that
SV> principle. Quote: "Contributors (OK, all 20 so far B-) and
SV> redistributors of Wikitravel"
I'm not sure I followed this part.
~ESP
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