[Foundation-l] New wiki creation moratorium

[Ray Saintonge]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 4/15/08, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>>  The main, really helpful thing WMF could do would be
>>  to give deadline on this. (i.e. The moratorium will
>>  not last longer than X months reagardless of the
>>  status of negotiations.
>>     
> If we don't have the FDL 1.3 by April 30, we'll definitely try to find
> a better solution ASAP.
>   
April 30 is certainly reasonable, and within the more sensible part of 
the wide-open range that I mentioned before.  Nevertheless letting new 
wikis be affected presumptively by an as yet undisclosed licence 
generates a lot of unnecessary heat.  In the foreseeable future this 
handful of projects would remain tiny beside the huge bulk of other WMF 
projects whose conversion to a new licence would be a massive 
undertaking.  Making the migration for a few additional tiny projects 
would be of no great consequence.

There are clearly imperfections in our application of 1.2, but it is the 
rule until formally replaced.  At some future date 1.3 will become the 
rule, but until that date it is more orderly to proceed on the basis 
that 1.2 is fully applicable.

Ec