[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

Tue Nov 4 00:28:50 UTC 2008

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Alex <mrzmanwiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chad wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> >> 2008/11/3 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> >>> The fact that the WMF didn't even attempt to apply public pressure to
> the
> >> FSF
> >>> suggests to me that you didn't do a very good job of negotiating on
> >>> our behalf.
> >> Under certain circumstances, that's exactly what we would have done,
> >> but obviously such a strategy carries in it inherent risks that the
> >> entire process will fail. Richard originally asked us for conditions
> >> we could not accept; we negotiated to modify them, and the
> >> aforementioned agreement represents a compromise.
> >> --
> >> Erik Möller
> >> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
> >>
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> > Just out of curiosity, how does this apply to miscellaneous projects that
> > don't
> > fall under the normal "content" wikis (all the private wikis are GFDL,
> for
> > example).
> >
>
> Are they? I don't know about the others, but the OTRS-wiki is
> specifically not GFDL. "Content is copyrighted by the Wikimedia Foundation"
>
> --
> Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)
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Assumed they were...proven wrong.

-Chad