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

[Brianna Laugher]

On 07/04/2008, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>  -- The French Wikipedia has the user to agree to license their
>  contributions "sous la GNU Free Documentation License", and the GFDL
>  phrase links to an *offsite* copy of the GFDL at
>  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html, with no further clarification as
>  regards versions, invariant sections, etc. If you do manage to end up at
>  [[fr:Wikipédia:Droit_d'auteur]], there's still no explicit license
>  statement at all, and definitely no "1.2 or later" verbiage.

If no version is specified, then there is no problem:

10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE:
"If the Document does not specify a version number of this License,
you may choose any version ever published (not as a draft) by the Free
Software Foundation."

The only potential problem is if there are projects saying "license
under GFDL v1.2 [only]".

Brianna

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