dear all, I've been trying to figure out what is the current state of the debate over (in)compatibility of ShareAlike licenses for data. Does anyone here know what is the status of the revisions to the GNU Free Documentaion License that were announced last December?
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update "[Wikimedia] Foundation requests that the GNU Free Documentation License be modified in the fashion proposed by the FSF to allow migration by mass collaborative projects to the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license" I see a GFDL v2 discussion draft from September 2006: http://www.fsf.org/news/gfdl-dd1.html that does not contain the changes I've heard discussed (invariant sections, obligation to transmit the license to derived or combined works) as needed. As i understand it, work was or is in progress on an updated version of the GFDL that would be compatible with CC-BY-SA. Meanwhile CC-BY-SA from 3.0 would allow the relicensing of a combined or derived work under a compatible license. But there aren't any listed here: http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses I know i'm late with this story, but the more i try to figure out what's going on, the more confusing it all becomes. The lack of backstory about what the FSF agreed with Wikimedia and what has happened in the 6 months since the last announcements is not helping ... enlightenment apprec. jo -- _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
