[Foundation-l] Re-licensing

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Thu Jan 22 19:01:21 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> The attribution issue is so divisive, however, that I increasingly
> wonder whether it wouldn't be sensible to add at least a set of
> preferences to the licensing vote to better understand what people's
> preferred implementation would look like, within the scope of what we
> consider to be legally defensible parameters.


If more than 10% or so of voters want direct attribution, it'll probably be
enough of a critical mass to support a fork, licensed under the GFDL 1.2
only.

I don't know if it's going to be that high or not, though.


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