[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

Alex mrzmanwiki at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 00:01:27 UTC 2008


Chad wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:29 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.
>> --
>> Erik Möller
>> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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> 
> Just out of curiosity, how does this apply to miscellaneous projects that
> don't
> fall under the normal "content" wikis (all the private wikis are GFDL, for
> example).
> 

Are they? I don't know about the others, but the OTRS-wiki is
specifically not GFDL. "Content is copyrighted by the Wikimedia Foundation"

-- 
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)



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