[Foundation-l] Projects without >FDL1.2 migration clause

[Erik Moeller]

I'm breaking this out under a new subject because it merits some attention

On 4/6/08, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>  - Some projects (I think all francophone, but I am not sure) are using
>  strictly GFDL 1.2. It is not because they are generally not willing to
>  switch to CC-BY-SA, but because of legal implications of "... or any
>  later version..." in their countries.

That's a very relevant claim that I haven't heard before. If this is
true, it would obviously pose problems for those projects no matter
what future changes we'd like to see to our licensing structure.

Can someone confirm? If there is more than one project/language, we
should begin building a list.

If this is true, we could probably use the "protest if you object"
process proposed by Mike a while ago for these projects. It would be
painful if there's a substantial number of users who object to a
license change, but may become necessary.

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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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