[WikiEN-l] GDFL compliance

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Jun 7 12:00:35 UTC 2009


2009/6/6 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:

> "no synopsis can substitute for what the text of the
> license<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License>says,
> and if in doubt the reuser should seek a proper legal opinion" (
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia)
> Or, in this particular case, "you're the lawyer, you figure it out".


Yep. That even the FSF can't explain the GFDL was another reason it
was considered too broken to stay with.


- d.



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