On Tuesday 06 April 2010 15:16:14 Ximin Luo wrote: > On 04/06/2010 02:41 PM, cvollet at gmail.com wrote: > > Le 6 avr. 2010 15:21, Ximin Luo <xl269 at cam.ac.uk> a ?crit : > >> atm the wiki content is licensed with GFDL. Do we want to relicense it as > >> CC-BY-SA (attribution+sharealike) instead? If so, we should do this > >> while the wiki is still young. > > > > What are the advantages / drawbacks of such a change? > > > > CC-BY-SA has less cruft; GFDL has cover texts and the fact that you have to > include the entire text of the license when distributing any part of the work, > no matter how small. > > CC-BY-SA is more general; GFDL is intended for software documentation. > > CC-BY-SA has been adapted for multiple jurisdictions; GFDL was only developed > in the context of US jurisdiction.
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