On Friday 09 April 2010 07:12:50 Florent Daigniere wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:02:56PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 15:16:14 Ximin Luo wrote:
> > > On 04/06/2010 02:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > Le 6 avr. 2010 15:21, Ximin Luo <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > > >> atm the wiki content is licensed with GFDL. Do we want to relicense it 
> > > >> as
> > > >> CC-BY-SA (attribution+sharealike) instead? If so, we should do this
> > > >> while the wiki is still young.
> > > > 
> > > > What are the advantages / drawbacks of such a change?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > CC-BY-SA has less cruft; GFDL has cover texts and the fact that you have 
> > > to
> > > include the entire text of the license when distributing any part of the 
> > > work,
> > > no matter how small.
> > > 
> > > CC-BY-SA is more general; GFDL is intended for software documentation.
> > > 
> > > CC-BY-SA has been adapted for multiple jurisdictions; GFDL was only 
> > > developed
> > > in the context of US jurisdiction.
> > 
> > Is CC-BY-SA GPL compatible, to enable copy and paste etc?
> 
> Obviously not... as you don't include the licence anymore.

Whereas iirc GFDL is?

Of course, GPL is ...

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