Hi Nilfanion,
On Thu, March 13, 2008 5:43 pm, Nilfanion wrote:
{{GFDL-1.2}} was nominated for deletion on the grounds it is not actually that free. I'm not trying to express an opinion on whether it is worth keeping or not, but feel that COM:DEL should not be used as the primary discussion venue for the validity of a template.
I've closed the debate (though I may end up getting overturned), and moved the discussion to the (previously empty) talk page - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:GFDL-1.2
This post is just to notify of the discussion and to see if this approach (establish validity and determine strategy on the template's talk as opposed to COM:DEL) is more appropriate than on a deletion discussion - which with high-use templates tends to generate badly.
While not criticizing your decision itself, I just wonder why you did not take the actual use of this template into account. We are currently having some problems with User:Steschke [1] illustrating the current typical usage of this license. AFAIK Gmaxwell is the only contributor broadly releasing files as GFDL-1.2 who did not retract GFDL-self.
Regards, Adrian / Codeispoetry
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Steschke/licence&dif... and following diffs (the ip is steschke itself while blocked)