[Foundation-l] GNU FDL 1.3 released!

[Nathan]

I see that the FAQ has a different take on the matter than is suggested by
its actual text, or at least the actual license text is more clear than the
FAQ. The FAQ suggests having a passed deadline is designed to prevent the
wholesale addition of text released under FDL in order to relicense it
CC-BY-SA. That would work fine with the text as its written, and would seem
only to require the deletion of FDL content originally published elsewhere
that is added to Wikipedia after Nov 1. I think the volume of "published
elsewhere" content added to Wikipedia is relatively small these days, isn't
it?

Nathan

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:16 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?
>
> 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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