[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 23:22:04 UTC 2008


2008/11/3 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:51 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> FAL and GFDL 1.2 only are not uploaded in large enough amounts that we
>> cannot absorb the loss.
>>
>> GPL and LGPL are more of a problem
>
> </snip>
>
> On Commons, counting how many times each template is used.
>
> GFDL 1.2: 9000
> GPL: 14000
> LGPL: 7000
> FAL: 17000
>
> I'm not sure your instincts that FAL and GFDL-1.2 are easier to deal
> with are necessarily correct.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>

Mostly the class of images they cover. GPL and LGPL includes a lot of
screenshots which are likely to be impossible to replace.

Yes loss of FAL and GFDL 1.2 would hurt but most of it can be replaced.

CeCILL I'm not to sure about.



-- 
geni



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