GFDL 1.3

[Alex Hudson]

Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> 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?
>   

No, it's only a problem because the ability to relicense is time-limited.

In previous drafts I saw, there was an idea of being able to relicense 
to a "GNU Wiki License" which would have presumably been CC-BY-SA 
compatible without needing to relicense to that license - I was 
imagining a license akin to the GFDL in the way the LGPL is akin to the 
GPL.

If that option had been open-ended, it would have meant that forks could 
have been resolved to each other. With the current license, any forks 
unresolved before August 2009 are unresolvable again.

Cheers,

Alex.