What is a guru license, and what is a non-guru license? A guru license is a license where a guru can change the terms of the license according to his whims.
You can recognise the existense of a guru to the presence of the following lines : CC-BY-SA 3.0 : "either this or a later license version". GFDL : "The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time" (but you can opt-out of the guru if you remove "or any later version" from your licensing statement). Conversely, CC-BY-SA 1.0 does not contain any such revision mechanism. To the contrary of the other CC licenses, the following sentence at the end of the license : "This License constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Work licensed here. There are no understandings, agreements or representations with respect to the Work not specified here", is true to its meaning. Philosophically, I don't see why I should choose for my created contents, or recommend to other creators to choose a guru-license. Depending on the whims of a guru amounts to the servitude denounced by Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) in his 1548 essay "Discourse on voluntary servitude"(1) CC-BY-SA-Guru is CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC-BY-SA-NonGuru is CC-BY-SA 1.0 GFDL-Guru is "GFDL + version number or any later version" GDFL-NonGuru is "GFDL version + version number" practically that means "GFDL 1.2" (GFDL 1.3 has to be avoided because of its transfer mechanism to Creative Commons) Both the CC-BY-SA 1.0, and the strict GFDL 1.2 must be included in the upload wizard. The uploading tutorial should explain beginners the difference between these licenses and the other licenses, enabling them to choose in full knowledge of the facts. (1) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Voluntary_Servitude _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
