[Foundation-l] GNU FDL 1.3 released!

[Bence Damokos]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Referring to:
>
> "An MMC is "eligible for relicensing" if it is licensed under this License,
> and if all works that were first published under this License somewhere
> other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole or in part into
> the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections, and (2) were thus
> incorporated prior to November 1, 2008."
>
> I get the feeling that your reading of this section is not completely
> accurate. "First published somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently
> incorporated..."  What specific types of content do you suppose that
> applies
> to?


IANAL, but this would mean text added after a permission to use has been
received (e.g. in OTRS). I am ambivalent whether this deadline means that
OTRS should stop accepting text, as that would be incorporated after the
deadline and thus its licence unconvertible.

 Bence Damokos

>
>
> Nathan
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Well, that's a completely useless license. Congratulations to the WMF
> > for wasting a whole load of time. How are we meant to use it when the
> > deadline was 2 days ago? Anything added to our projects since then
> > would need to be deleted in order to transfer to CC, which includes
> > any content added during the discussion about whether we want to
> > switch which will take some time.
> >
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