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

[Anthony]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:57 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/5/28 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
> >Free culture arose to permit
> > reuse, and should continue that way. We should  simply have told the
> > FSF:  At least when dealign with text, we regard all CC-BY licenses as
> > compatible with each other and with GFDL, and therefore there's
> > nothing that needs to be negotiated.
>
> It's a great way to get reuses sued by discruntled wikipedians but has
> no useful function.


Reusers have pretty much never followed the GFDL, yet there haven't been any
lawsuits.  At best the recent legal contortions will change nothing, at
worst it will inspire lawsuits where there would have been none.