[Textbook-l] RE: Anonymous contributions

Tue Aug 5 15:23:31 UTC 2003

--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:
> I would say that the primary driving concern that we
> have is that
> there are starting to be materials published under
> other free and
> copyleft licenses (Creative Commons
> Attribution-Share Alike being most
> prominent) that are incompatible with the GNU FDL. 
> We'd love to be
> able to cut and paste willy-nilly between all free
> resources, but we
> can't, due to issues of license incompatibility.
> 
> http://www.wikitravel.org, or example, is CC ATT-SA,
> so we can't use
> their materials and they can't use ours, not without
> specific
> permission.  That's a real shame, and it's why I'm
> trying to get them
> to change their license while they are just starting
> to get off the
> ground.
> 
> --Jimbo

Is it in any way possible for us to have an agreement
with eachother that says that we can use eachother's
material? Would that be against the GPL?
LDan

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