[Foundation-l] GFDL publisher credit

Wed Jul 12 16:26:56 UTC 2006

On 7/12/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am, and I hope you do not have a problem with the idea of a paid general
> counsel having as one of his primary responsibilities the generation of
> 'speculative pronouncements on the law.'  That is rather the point.  My
> client, my ethical obligation, and the recipient of my professional legal
> advice is the Board.  It's my bar card on the line.  It is not my job to wax
> eloquent on the law for the sake of making people on a listserv have more to
> rant about.

In my initial mail in this thread, I suggested a very specific course
of action, not an open-ended discussion on this mailing list. Is there
any plan to come up with an interpretation of the GFDL that the
Wikimedia Foundation will stand behind, and which will become
project-level policy? If so, will the community be involved in the
process of developing that interpretation, for instance, by collecting
questions about how to interpret specific sections?

Thanks,
Erik