[WikiEN-l] GFDL and images

[Neil Harris]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 11/06/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Precisely why are we stuck with it?  If it were an article it would be
>> up for deletion.
>>     
>
> We have a choice:
>
> a) Drop the GFDL and pick a better license (ABL). The problem here is
> that we cannot legitimately use anything that is licensed under GFDL,
> unless we convince its author(s) to relicense their work under ABL.
>
> Net effect: 98% of Wikipedia articles or so - including virtually
> every single significant one - have to be abandoned and started again
> from scratch. We'd only get to keep the ones where we could contact
> all the contributors (well, all as of a certain revision whose
> material had not been removed in that revision, and you might have fun
> arguing that last clause) and get them to relicense their work - in
> effect, only single-author articles by currently active users.
>
> b) Live with it.
>
>   
or:

c) since all existing articles are licensed under "Version 1.2 [of the 
GFDL] or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation", 
lobby the FSF to make the next version of the GFDL _be_ that better 
licence.

-- Neil