[Foundation-l] Licensing update roll-out

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 17:45:52 UTC 2009


2009/6/18 Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Erik Moeller<erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Because the GFDL is only of interest to a minority of
>> re-users,
> ...
>
> If this is the Foundation's view, why did it opt to push for (hobbled)
> dual-licencing going forward, instead of transitioning completely to
> CC-BY-SA and retaining GFDL only for legacy content?

As I understand it, it was a concession made to the FSF during the negotiations.



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