[Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

Wed Feb 18 21:14:34 UTC 2009

2009/2/18 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
> We do still plan to have a survey, although I don't think it's critical
> that it precede the vote. The point of the survey is in particular to
> get some more information that would help work out details for
> attribution standards. Not everything is specified in the licenses, for
> good reason, and we should continue fine-tuning attribution after
> whatever decision we make, no need to close off the discussion. To a
> large part attribution is independent of the relicensing question, it's
> just that this is a good time to also foster discussion on the issue.

I will oppose any proposal that doesn't specify attribution standards,
and I doubt I'm alone in that - they are a matter of how we are
interpreting the license. You can't vote on whether to adopt a license
without knowing what that license means.