[Foundation-l] GFDL/CC announcement?

[Brian McNeil]

Matt R wrote:
> --- Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
><snip>
>> In any case,  as a result of this I expect Wikimedia will be removing
>> my contributions then, and taking due care to ensure that copies
>> previously circulated under the GFDL 1.2 will not be mistaken for
>> content available under some other license because of their actions.

I am not a lawyer, but if any independent site hosts copies of your work and
asserts GFDL or later it will not be the Foundation's responsibility to
notify them they cannot also move to a later version you've not seen but are
dead-set against.

>Isn't it crazy? For any bleedingly-obvious
no-brainer-that-it's-a-great->idea
>idea, there'll be people who want to say how bad it is. Mr Maxwell, I've no
>reason to doubt that you're a fine and rational fellow, but a large
>"SHEESH!"
>to you on this one.

Slashdot has posted it, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/01/2032252

Great place to rant, much bigger audience than a mailing list.


Brian McNeil