[Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

[Anthony]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Henning Schlottmann
<h.schlottmann at gmx.net>wrote:

> * Ditch the dual licensing. I don't understand it. I am trained as a
> lawyer to understand about licenses and I have not the slightest idea
> how the dual licensing is supposed to work. No one I talked to -
> layperson or professional - understood about it. Make a hard switch, as
> GFDL 1.3 allows. If RMS doesn't like it, too bad.
>

What jurisdictions are you licensed to practice law in?  Dual licensing at
least has the one added benefit that if the switch to CC-BY-SA is deemed
invalid in one or more jurisdictions, at least the content might still be
distributable under the GFDL.