[Foundation-l] Re-licensing

geni geniice at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 19:19:00 UTC 2009


2009/1/22 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> 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.

Nope. The GFDL 1.2 license is so bad that any fork would still be
looking to use CC just in a slightly more legal way.

-- 
geni



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