[Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

[Anthony]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/2/22 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>:
> > Thomas Dalton wrote:
> >> As I understand it, the WMF made an agreement with RMS that the
> >> projects would be dual licensed and not switched entirely. I think
> >> making that agreement was a mistake, but there's not much that can be
> >> done about it now. The WMF shouldn't go back on its word.
> >
> > I would be interested to hear what your source was for such
> > a deal between RMS and the WMF.
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047013.html
>

Is this a written agreement?  Why isn't it public?  Why haven't the reasons
for the agreement been made public?