GFDL 1.3
Sam Liddicott
sam at liddicott.com
Wed Nov 5 12:08:20 UTC 2008
* Alex Hudson wrote, On 05/11/08 11:37:
> David Gerard wrote:
>
>> 2008/11/5 MJ Ray <mjr at 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
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