[Foundation-l] Simple solution to the GFDL/CC-by-SA issue

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 22:16:52 UTC 2007


> A bit of a follow-up to this question: If the FSF modifies the GFDL to
> be compatible with CC-BY-SA, wouldn't that negate the need to migrate
> from one to the other? If the two licenses were fully-compatible to
> the point that migration was possible, wouldn't we already be getting
> everything we want out of the GFDL anyway? If the GFDL is modified to
> suit our needs as well as the CC-BY-SA does, why is there a need to
> migrate?

So that things already released under CC-BY-SA can be used in GFDL
works and vice versa. What form the "migration" will take, I have no
idea, though. We need to wait and see what the end result actually
says.



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