[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

Robert Rohde rarohde at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 23:52:20 UTC 2008


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2008/11/3 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> The fact that the WMF didn't even attempt to apply public pressure to the FSF
>> suggests to me that you didn't do a very good job of negotiating on
>> our behalf.
>
> Under certain circumstances, that's exactly what we would have done,
> but obviously such a strategy carries in it inherent risks that the
> entire process will fail. Richard originally asked us for conditions
> we could not accept; we negotiated to modify them, and the
> aforementioned agreement represents a compromise.

So if the community decides dual-licensing is dumb, is that the end of
it?  GFDL Forever?

-Robert Rohde



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