GFDL & FSF (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Did I miss the great Digital Universe debate?)

Tue Jan 10 10:33:07 UTC 2006

--- Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:

> Using the GFDLed stuff is more problematic.  Using it was, in
> hindsight, probably the biggest mistake made by Wikipedia.  It might
> be worth starting over from scratch just to get rid of the ties to the
> GFDL.  Of course one can always hope that the FSF is finally going to
> fix that license, but we've been asking for years and it hasn't
> happened yet.

What requests has Wikipedia made FSF to improve the GFDL to date? Has there
been any response? Has this been documented somewhere?

-- Matt

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto
Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com

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