On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 16:01 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
What is the FSF Europe's position regarding the (proposed?) changes to the FDL to make it compatible with (some of) the CC licenses?
It would be interesting to find out.
The section is this:
8b. WIKI RELICENSING
If the Work was previously published, with no Cover Texts, no Invariant Sections, and no Acknowledgements or Dedications or Endorsements section, in a system for massive public collaboration under version 1.2 of this License, and if all the material in the Work was either initially developed in that collaboration system or had been imported into it before 1 June 2006, then you may relicense the Work under the GNU Wiki License.
It would also be interesting to see if anyone other than Wikipedia were able to make use of this escape-hatch. I dislike the idea of writing trap-doors into licenses to help people re-license stuff without the permission of the original author.
Cheers,
Alex.