Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
