On 04/12/2007, Alfred M. Szmidt ams@gnu.org wrote:
| And so this is not, as some people speculated on Facebook, my | 50th birthday party, this is the party to celebrate the | libration of Wikipedia.
I find this sentence quite objectionable, as if the GFDL shackles Wikipedia.
[...] You can't reuse an article safely without attaching the entire GFDL. [...] That applies to all copyright licenses, the GPL included.
It doesn't apply to CC-by-sa. Which is the point.
Attaching the entire GFDL 1.2 text is not meaningfully "free" for photos or single-page texts. And how do you reasonably implement it for a motion picture.
- d.