[Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

Wed Feb 18 21:46:53 UTC 2009

2009/2/18 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> Hoi,
> The way I read Michael, it is an open issue never mind what license we
> choose. It is therefore an issue whether we stay with the GFDL or not. It is
> in my opinion weird to allow arguments that have no bearing whatsoever on
> the subject make a difference.

I think we all accept that we currently interpret the GFDL very
loosely (probably to the point of not strictly following it), since it
doesn't really make sense for what we're doing with it. If we're going
to switch to a new license we ought to do it with the intention of
following it properly. That means we need to know what following it
properly entails before we can know if we want to switch.