It is ironic that these various licenses are incompatible with each
other, maybe a simpler solution would be to have a very straightforward
license like has been used commonly in areas where non-exclusive
licensing is a commercial reality and just make sure that atribution
is preserved (sort of like the moral rights approach of European
copyright) isn't that what we all really want when we talk about
open content?
Alex756
"Jimmy Wales" <jwales(a)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