It is ironic that these various licenses are incompatible with each other, maybe a simpler solution would be to have a very straightforward license like has been used commonly in areas where non-exclusive licensing is a commercial reality and just make sure that atribution is preserved (sort of like the moral rights approach of European copyright) isn't that what we all really want when we talk about open content? Alex756
"Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com wrote:
I would say that the primary driving concern that we have is that there are starting to be materials published under other free and copyleft licenses (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike being most prominent) that are incompatible with the GNU FDL. We'd love to be able to cut and paste willy-nilly between all free resources, but we can't, due to issues of license incompatibility.
http://www.wikitravel.org, or example, is CC ATT-SA, so we can't use their materials and they can't use ours, not without specific permission. That's a real shame, and it's why I'm trying to get them to change their license while they are just starting to get off the ground.
--Jimbo