[Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

For the record, I disagree that "the way we are going to do
this is different from what the license says anyway" at least
as the starting point. I think it should be very carefully
thought about if there were a conscious decision to
violate the license explicitly. That said there is of course
a gray area, where legitimate disagreements can be had
about what the license entails, but that is a completely
different issue.

It is true that there has been the "nod and a wink"
understanding between FSF and WMF about how
some things are left unresolved.

But that absolutely need not translate into the
CC-BY-SA world, since there are no *real* points
of significant obstacle to fully complying with its
provisions quite exhaustively.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen


Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> Sure but when the way we are going to do this is different from what the
> license says anyway.. and this is the implication, then there is no point in
> throwing the child away with the bathing water as you propose. So imho we
> should compare the two licenses and in essence we already agree that the
> GFDL is not suitable to our needs so consequently we will do well by making
> the switch as per your own argument.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> 2009/2/18 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
>
>   
>> 2009/2/18 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>>     
>>> Hoi,
>>> The way I read Michael, it is an open issue never mind what license we
>>> choose. It is therefore an issue whether we stay with the GFDL or not. It
>>>       
>> is
>>     
>>> in my opinion weird to allow arguments that have no bearing whatsoever on
>>> the subject make a difference.
>>>       
>> I think we all accept that we currently interpret the GFDL very
>> loosely (probably to the point of not strictly following it), since it
>> doesn't really make sense for what we're doing with it. If we're going
>> to switch to a new license we ought to do it with the intention of
>> following it properly. That means we need to know what following it
>> properly entails before we can know if we want to switch.
>>
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