[Foundation-l] GNU FDL 1.3 released!

[Erik Moeller]

2008/11/3 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> It's nothing short of absurd to have the deadline two days before the
> license was released.

Not at all. It's a deliberate design decision to make it impossible to
bulk-import and  relicense other people's FDL works, e.g. FDL-licensed
software manuals, while not affecting legitimate transactions that
have happened prior to the relicensing window of opportunity.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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