Jimmy Wales wrote:
I think that GNU FDL is perfectly fine for Ultimate
Wiktionary and there
is no need to change the license. The license is perfectly compatible
with the .DICT format, so there should be no problems at all.
I'm glad to hear that.
Thinking about how to import data from wiktionary in
the ultimate
wiktionary may pose a few puzzles with respect to FDL compliance, but I
don't see any significant problems. The import script should keep track
of who contributed to a chunk of data and take note of that fact. The
history may be a little more problematic, and I think we will want to
get advice on exactly how to do it.
Importing histories into Gerard's project will not remove them from the
existing Wiktionaries. Simply putting a dated link to the source
Wiktionary should do it. That would only become a problem if the
existing Wiktionary deletes the article or otherwise makes it
unworkable. In the existing transwiki technique article histories are
moved with the term in question. This gives a nice list of who edited
and when, but records of what changes these people made are
unavailable. In some cases, particularly as regards very stubby
articles, it has proved more practical to discard the transwikied
material and its history completely, and start a whole new article.
But changing the license to something else would
require throwing away
all existing work in wiktionary, which seems quite unwise to me.
Not really, since the existing wiktionaries would continue as they have
all along.
Ec