2009/2/20 Henning Schlottmann <[email protected]>: > * Ditch the dual licensing. I don't understand it. I am trained as a > lawyer to understand about licenses and I have not the slightest idea > how the dual licensing is supposed to work. No one I talked to - > layperson or professional - understood about it. Make a hard switch, as > GFDL 1.3 allows. If RMS doesn't like it, too bad.
It's fairly straightforward if somewhat foolish. It means that any content created on wikipedia and not derived from CC-BY-SA can be used by reuses under either CC-BY-SA or the GFDL. > > * Abandon the planned vote, don't ask the community. The issue is too > complicated to hand out proper information to the laypersons in the > community. Consequently we should not be bothered. Doing otherwise would > in the best outcome be dishonest, because we have to decide blindly, or > it could result in a disaster. And public vote on issues always means > that in the end no one have to take responsibility for it. Your problem here is that Erik isn't a lawyer either. If the situation was entirely being handled by Mike Godwin then you would have a case but it isn't. > * The responsibility for decisions of this magnitude lays with the > board. WMF is a non-membership association. Don't even try to evade that > responsibility by delegating it to the "community". Accept the > responsibility and act accordingly. The board is not at this point that significantly involved. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
