Hoi, Thank you.. Gerard 2009/2/23 Michael Snow <[email protected]>
> Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Hoi, > > There is a short period of time left before the switch over from the GFDL > > license is to happen. What I observe is that it will be likely at the > last > > moment when the decision will be taken. The problem is that this is too > > late. > > > > It is too late because there are many websites who have selected the GFDL > > because Wikipedia has this license as well. Where the people in the know > are > > aware that this magical deadline is approaching many of the people > involved > > are not. > > > > It is for this reason that I urge us, the board to make a decision and > > publish it widely because the GFDL is a viral license and it will make > > cooperation with these people legally impossible. That would be the same > > tragedy as it is a tragedy that we currently cannot legaly cooperate with > > the websites that do use the CC-by-sa. > > > The board's plan hasn't changed, which is to make the decision in April > after a community vote. Assuming we can get the vote started soon > enough, the board could act at its meeting at the beginning of April. > I'm not going to allow any decision to get pushed beyond the end of > April regardless. That would still allow outside parties three months > for whatever processes they need to make their decisions. I know it > would always be nice to have more time, but delays will always expand to > fill the space available, so deadline pressure is not a bad thing. > > --Michael Snow > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
