GFDL 1.3

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com> writes:
> playing games like this will make people distrust 
> the "or later" clauses.

Let's assess the risks first:

> If people choose GFDL, it's pretty bloody 
> obvious (to me) that the relaxed CC-BY-SA license isn't what they wanted.

This is a non-issue for Wikipedia because each contributor owns their
contributions - not the Wikimedia Foundation.  There can be no hostile
change of licence there.

Is there a project that will be eligible for this clause and for which the
copyright isn't held by the contributors?


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