[Wikipedia-l] RE: License Incompatibilities (was Re: [Wikitech-l] CIA Factbook Slurping)

[The Cunctator]

> From: Jimmy Wales on Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:55 PM
> This really shouldn't be on wikitech-l.
> 
> Richard Grevers wrote:
> > Question: If none of the existing licensing systems quite fulfils
> > Wikipedia's needs, why doesn't Wikimedia (i.e. us) write a license
that
> > does work?
> 
> Well, we can write whatever we want, but it won't help with the
> problem, because we have this huge mass of content under GNU FDL.
> 
> I think that the best we can do is to come up with strong suggestions
> for GNU FDL 2.0, and under the "any later versions" clause, use that.
> 
> What I'd like to see if GNU FDL 2.0 and CC ATT-SA 2.0 both explicitly
> say that copying and pasting stuff between stuff licensed under either
> is perfectly fine.

That is what is to be hoped for, yes. In particular, that anything
licensed with no Cover Texts or Invariant Sections under the current
GFDL (e.g. Wikipedia) can be redistributed under CC ATT-SA.