[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

Fri Mar 21 09:38:01 UTC 2008

Delirium wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> 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.

Even simpler, fork under 1.2 only license. This problem would persist 
for all licenses which offer the option of choosing a later version.