[Foundation-l] Re-licensing

geni geniice at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 19:54:18 UTC 2009


2009/1/22 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> What about the GFDL 1.2 is so bad that it is unusable?  Clean up the history
> tracking, add five names next to each article title, add a copyright
> statement at the bottom of each article, turn on the "real name" preference,
> and it seems like you could bring Wikipedia into compliance.  You might have
> to forego dreams of a print edition, but frankly that doesn't seem very
> effective anyway.  You could probably build a hand powered e-reader for less
> than the cost of printing all of Wikipedia - if not today than in the not
> too distant future.

Wikipedia is in compliance with the GFDL. It's resuers who have
serious issues. But then I've been through this with you many times
and I don't see any reason to think you are any more likely to get it
this time around.


-- 
geni



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