[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

Fri Mar 21 08:32:37 UTC 2008

David Gerard wrote:
> On 20/03/2008, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>  However, a fork, particularly a commercially financed one, that seeks to go
>>  beyond being a mere copy by providing a differentiated feature set and
>>  seeking to build its own community could be an entirely different beast from
>>  any of the forks we have now seen.  And in my personal opinion, an
>>  especially dangerous one at that.
>>     
>
>
> Not necessarily. What we need is to make not only forking possible,
> but to make re-merging feasible, complete with GFDL credit trail. Then
> there's a lot less to fear from forks.
>   
The GFDL is particularly bad for that, though, which would make it all 
the better if the mooted relicensing to some sort of wiki license 
happens. A reuser of Wikimedia content can easily make it unattractive 
for us to re-merge their content by adding Invariant Sections to their 
derivative work, giving us the choice of including e.g. a verbatim ad 
slogan that can never be edited (or multiple ones if we re-merge from 
multiple sources!), or not re-merge.

-Mark