* Alex Hudson wrote, On 05/11/08 11:37:
David Gerard wrote:
  
2008/11/5 MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop>:
  
    
Did anyone have an inkling that this was coming and kept pumping FDL'd
manuals into a wiki just in case? ;-)
    
      
Uh, it's only been on the cards (GFDL and CC-by-sa compatibility in
some regard) for, what, two years now. If you're surprised, you
weren't paying attention, and it's hard to see that as a fault with
everyone else.
    

There's a rather large difference between "compatibility" and 
"relicensing without an author's permission", though.
  
It's helped me make up my mind about the "or later" clause though... I always thought the main issue would be trust of future as yet unknown FSF leaders.

I wonder that wikipedia wasn't just mentioned outright instead of a vaguer sounding clause that has an additional unknown quantity of leaks

Sam