[Foundation-l] Third-party GFDL text irrevocably incompatible with Wikipedia as of August 1

geni geniice at gmail.com
Wed May 27 11:39:26 UTC 2009


2009/5/27 Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for circulating this.
>
> Not to create a self-fulfilling prophecy here, but I suspect that 90%
> or more of those affected by this issue will not care or will not
> understand the urgency, and they will not do anything, either on their
> own sites or on-wiki. What are the practical implications of this if
> nothing happens and little attention is paid by anyone?
>
> Newyorkbrad
>

Not much. Not many active third party GFDL projects so it is unlikely
that there will significant amounts of new GFDL content produced in
future and most existing stuff of interest has long since been
imported.


-- 
geni



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