On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:02:56PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > 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. > > Is CC-BY-SA GPL compatible, to enable copy and paste etc?
Obviously not... as you don't include the licence anymore.
