[Foundation-l] The license situation

Sat Oct 18 19:03:11 UTC 2008

2008/10/18 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> Have they published any drafts?

The FSF has published a draft of a GFDL V2 and a simplified GFDL here
a couple of years ago:
http://gplv3.fsf.org/doclic-dd1-guide.html

The GFDL 1.3 they have proposed to us is, AFAICT, a verbatim copy of
the GFDL 1.2 with a single additional section on re-licensing. The
GFDL V2 draft is a very significant evolution of the GFDL.  The
re-licensing section is the part that the FSF is somewhat protective
of, as per earlier discussions on this list. However, the discussions
of the past few months have circled exactly around the issues that we
considered potentially problematic for adoption by us and by others,
so I hope that we will have been able to accommodate most concerns
that could potentially arise.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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