[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/2/3 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> I would like to see the most flexible attribution rules possible (just the
> Article Title, Wikipedia perhaps). If Geni's adamance regarding strict terms
> of attribution is a correct interpretation of the CC-BY-SA then I can't see
> it as being the correct license for the projects. Where is the CC-Wiki
> license? We have tremendous goodwill with both the FSF and CC, surely we can
> get our own license that applies specifically to the problems that wikis
> face and other content mediums do not.

We can't relicense GFDL works under a license which isn't in the same
spirit, a license which allowed attribution to "Wikipedia" without the
explicit consent of the author wouldn't be in the same spirit.