[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

[geni]

2008/11/4  <psychoslave at culture-libre.org>:
> Why does the MWF want to move to CC-by-sa ? I really don't understand.
> What problem do you want to solve ? As I see it, trying to switch texts to
> CC-by-sa will cause more problems than it could ever resolve. But it just
> my opinion.
>
> However I must say I'm partial. I dislike CC because I think it brings so
> many confusion on what is a free license. I would be sad if MWF projects
> would switch to a CC license.
>
> Also I don't understand why the FSF go this way. If they want people to
> confuse with the word "free", IMO, that the way to go.
>
> Personally, I prefer the FAL. I used to use CC-by-sa-nc, when I didn't
> understand the free culture movement, don't believe I have always thought
> like I do today. I talked a lot here and there before I understood how bad
> CC was for the free culture movement.
>
> There are so many people out there which think CC is a license and display
> "This work is under Creative Commons". And even when they pick a CC, how
> many read the full text ? The FAL seems much human readable to me. I would
> be sad if the MWF would switch to CC-by-sa, because it would mean
> propagate this misunderstanding of the free culture.
>
> However, that's not all the point. Probably as I prefer the FAL I would
> feel less concerned, but still there would be this compatibilities issues.
> If compatibility isn't bilateral, as I see it, this is just a one way to a
> licenses compatibility nightmare.
>
> Note that works are in progress to make bilaterally compatible the free
> art license 1.3 and CC-by-sa 2.0-fr, if I well remember. Oh, by the way,
> what about the CC-by-sa miscellaneous language en number versions
> compatibility ?
>
> To my mind, this is not a good idea, won't bring anything good and is a
> waste of time. But of course, I could be wrong, and you could me explain
> why and what I missed/misunderstood.
>
> With all my apologies for my probably not so great English,
> Mathieu Stumpf.
> --
> Association Culture-Libre
> http://www.culture-libre.org/

1)the GFDL is not in any meaningful sense a free license so we do need
to switch away
2)It's taken years to get the FSF to agree to let us get around one
set of compatibility problems. Switching to FAL means we may end up in
the same situation with a different organisation

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geni