[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

[geni]

2008/11/4  <psychoslave at culture-libre.org>:
>
>> 1)the GFDL is not in any meaningful sense a free license so we do need
>> to switch away
>
> Can you explain me why, or point me to a page which would ?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL#Criticism_of_the_GFDL amoung others

>> 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
>
> How is it different or better with the CC ? Could you also tell what was
> this compatibility problems or tell me what I should read to know ?
>

There is a lot of material under CC-by-sa compared to FAL. If we has
switched to FAL we would still have issues with combining in CC works.
By switching to CC we do not have that problem.



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geni