GFDL 1.3

Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran at fsfe.org
Wed Nov 5 13:22:25 UTC 2008


Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com> writes:
> So my post-2009 scenario is going to rear its head with forks of 
> Wikipedia that are going to be potentially incompatible - people still 
> on GFDL at that point would be creating modifications which can't be 
> merged back.

Yes, but isn't this inevitable no matter how the change of licence is done?

In which case it's a general problem, not a problem created by the FSF/CC/WP
solution.


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