[Foundation-l] The license situation

[Anthony]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 2008/10/18 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> > I highly doubt the FSF is going to give the WMF exclusive rights to
> > relicense GFDL content (the draft version used the text "you may
> relicense
> > the Work", not "the WMF may relicense the work", or even "the original
> > publisher of the work, even if they deny that they are a publisher, may
> > relicense the work"),
>
> Please don't make assumptions based on drafts from two years ago. If
> WMF does not choose to re-license content on Wikimedia's sites to
> CC-BY-SA, there are limitations in place in the current re-licensing
> language to prevent others from doing so.


I'm making an assumption based on the fact that I can't imagine the FSF
supporting a license which gives special privileges to the WMF, and
considering that you "don't believe the FSF plans to publish any new draft
prior to release", making assumptions based on drafts from two years ago,
combined with what I know about the parties involved, is about the best I
can do.

I can understand the need for secrecy during the drafting process, though.