[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

[Anthony]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> wrote:

> We are moving to the CC-BY-SA license to improve compatibility and
> foster reuse, yes?


Supposedly, but any attempt to loosen the attribution requirements hinders
both compatibility (external works from authors who want attribution now
can't be included) and reuse (raises legal questions over the validity of
the loosened requirements and raises jurisdictional issues with regard to
moral rights).

Add in the legal questions over the very relicensing itself, and a reuser
really isn't in any better of a position than they were when things were
GFDL.