[Foundation-l] The license situation

[David Gerard]

2008/10/19 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> 2008/10/19 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:

>> If there is still a case to be made that adopting CC-BY-SA puts you in
>> a substantially worse position than adopting GFDL if your aim is to
>> protect your work with strong copyleft, I'd be really interested in a
>> thorough argument to that effect.

> The FSF tend to be ideologically driven but at least predictably so.
> CC tend to be more pragmatic which makes them less predicable. We have
> no reason to think that CC would opt for strong copyleft for images
> unless they have made a clear direct commitment to do so. They have
> not.


The CC have the advantage of being present and active on our mailing lists.


> The FSF on the other hand is more predicable if more troublesome in some areas.


Yes, if you ever ask them about their licenses they answer "Reply
hazy, try again later, ask your attorney." Saying "our attorney is
Mike Godwin and your license makes his head hurt" doesn't seem to
affect this.


- d.