[Foundation-l] New wiki creation moratorium

[Birgitte SB]

--- Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On 4/14/08, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > If you are really intent on a a transparent and
> open
> > process, then that must allow for the possibility
> that the new licence
> > or parts of it will not be acceptable to the
> community.
> 
> The parameters of any migration to FDL 1.3 and, by
> extension, CC-BY-SA
> have already been defined by the Board:
>
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update
> 
> So, yes, there will be a community consultation
> process before any
> decision is made upon release of FDL 1.3. That being
> said: Due to the
> way the license works, any re-user will be able to
> treat content we
> currently host as being licensed under FDL 1.3.
>  

To be blunt in what I think other's are getting at
here: 

The only effect of such a moratorium, that I can
imagine, is increased pressure put on the community
consultation process to end sooner rater than later.

Maybe my imagination is a bit weak today but that is
all I can come up; ignoring bad faith options. 

Birgitte SB


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