For the record, I disagree that "the way we are going to do this is different from what the license says anyway" at least as the starting point. I think it should be very carefully thought about if there were a conscious decision to violate the license explicitly. That said there is of course a gray area, where legitimate disagreements can be had about what the license entails, but that is a completely different issue.
It is true that there has been the "nod and a wink" understanding between FSF and WMF about how some things are left unresolved. But that absolutely need not translate into the CC-BY-SA world, since there are no *real* points of significant obstacle to fully complying with its provisions quite exhaustively. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Sure but when the way we are going to do this is different from what the > license says anyway.. and this is the implication, then there is no point in > throwing the child away with the bathing water as you propose. So imho we > should compare the two licenses and in essence we already agree that the > GFDL is not suitable to our needs so consequently we will do well by making > the switch as per your own argument. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/2/18 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> > > >> 2009/2/18 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: >> >>> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
