Samuel Klein wrote: > Ray Saintonge wrote: > >> Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) wrote: >> >>> The point I was making is that I expect people will continue importing >>> and exporting as per past practice with no attention given to the >>> issue and few people caring. From a legal point of view that's not >>> optimal, but I think it's highly likely. >>> >> That's a reasonable expectation. People who are not intimately involved >> with the arcana of licensing will just turn off and ignore the >> distinctions. Others may just see the rush to get everyone changed the >> short period between WMF's adoption of this switch and the deadline date >> as an attempt by the big kid on the block to push its policies on others. >> > We should certainly take care not to push anyone. I would be > delighted to see sites that do not wish to change sticking with the > GFDL - that's excellent, and it is a great license for people who use > it intentionally. What I mind is sites realizing in half a year the > implications of Wikimedia's switch, and despising the effect it has > had on them, if they chose the GFDL (and perhaps put up with some of > its quirks) simply for WP compatibility. >
As much as anything else it is the short time frame that will look pushy. Wikipedia went through a lot of debate *before* the switch, and the internal debates of others should not matter less. As I understand what is being said they will still be able to import from WMF projects; that would be more important to them than whether WMF projects import from them. To say that they chose GFDL for WP compatibility may not be a sustainable presumption in most cases. I doubt if many of them went through a lot of legal analysis before choosing a licence; an it's-as-good-as-anything attitude may very well have prevailed. If WMF projects can't copy from them it will more likely enhance the uniqueness of their project, a potentially positive result in a competitive market. Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
