[Foundation-l] Projects without >FDL1.2 migration clause

Mon Apr 7 19:29:16 UTC 2008

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 4/7/08, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  But (again...), I am really surprised that I informed Erik about
>  >  something which is at least two years old. Members of the team which
>  >  is negotiating shouldn't rely on informations which *someone* didn't
>  >  forget.
>
>  You made the claim that there are projects that are using "_strictly_
>  GFDL 1.2". So far you haven't produced evidence that there are any -
>  the only case of ambiguity cited in this thread has been addressed.
>  So, are there any? I'm aware of some media with a GFDL 1.2 only
>  clause, but not of any projects.

Hm. Erik, it is not my job to analyze a possible problem. It was not
even my job to tell you that there is a problem. I have a two years
old information that fr.wp is GFDL1.2-only because of the French law.
I was wondering how did you (the team) solve it and I heard that you
don't know for that.

I don't want to talk about the implications of the fact that you
didn't know for that, I just want that you and other members of the
team address this issue and to inform us about how did you do that. As
well as not to wait for anyone to discover for you possible problems,
but that you do that.

While I am really not interested in the name of the license, I am
interested in all consequences which this migration would bring to us.
And I am able to see just more and more problems.

"Everything is OK. I am working on that." works up to the some point.
I really believe to Jimmy that he wouldn't risk heavy consequences to
the community.

But, you said tit is *my* job to investigate the case which is a part
of your tasks. If it is a matter of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian,
Macedonian or Slovenian Wikipedias, I would actually do that. But, I
am absolutely irrelevant for the projects in French.

BTW, I am not trying to discredit your, Jimmy's or Mike's in my emails
at foundation-l; don't feel offended. From time to time I really want
to go to a hibernation until the end of this nightmare, whatever the
end will look like.