2006/7/12, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com:
Can an individual organisation such as Wikimedia change their requirements, despite the license, to something more lenient as you are suggesting? Even if they did, could some external organisation/person have a problem with it? Could the Free Software Foundation claim that we're misusing the GFDL? If they did, could they demand we use a different license (I think not, but I'll ask anyway)? Well, I'm just speculating, but they're questions that should be considered.
No, technically we cannot. I don't think the FSF can make such a claim, but the individual authors of that Wikipedia page might well have a point if they claim it is violating their copyright.
I sometimes wished I had a time machine so I could go to January 2001 and warn Jimbo about the problems of the GFDL, advising him to find or create another license for Wikipedia.