[Foundation-l] GNU FDL 1.3 released!

Mon Nov 3 16:31:38 UTC 2008

2008/11/3 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> 2008/11/3 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:
>> Referring to:
>>
>> "An MMC is "eligible for relicensing" if it is licensed under this License,
>> and if all works that were first published under this License somewhere
>> other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole or in part into
>> the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections, and (2) were thus
>> incorporated prior to November 1, 2008."
>>
>> I get the feeling that your reading of this section is not completely
>> accurate.
>
> That's correct. Changes originating in the wiki to be relicensed can
> still be relicensed past November 1, in fact until the 2009 deadline
> for relicensing. I haven't checked the FAQ (we didn't receive an
> advance copy of it), but it is possible that it doesn't correctly
> reflect this point.

Ok, that's marginally better. We don't need to delete everything
posted in the past 2 days (and the subsequent time until we decide
whether or not to switch) we just have to scour through it all and
delete those parts that weren't originally posted to whatever project
you're on - that includes anything transwikied and anything
translated. I stand by my original assessment, it's a useless license.

And it seems the FAQ is very badly written, do you have a contact
there that you can inform?