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Switching from GNU/FDL to CC-by-sa (like WP did)
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: The way the page is currently worded, contributors are able to grant additional privileges, but not remove them. That that only applies to their individual changes is certainly problematic for someone wanting to reuse the code, and that's something I wish were easily remedied, but the only sure remedy I can think of that allows for some degree of consistency while maintaining technical simplicity is to gradually migrate the entire site over to a more permissive license like CC-By or CC-SA. (I'm not personally interested in promoting the NC component.) A migration would involve deprecating all current tasks and pages, and starting from scratch under a new license. That's not impossible; we may very well be at the perfect relationship of content volume and community size to do it. I could even create a namespace to move the current GFDL content to. (There's still a question of category and template content, which isn't so easily shuffled around.) It ''would'' be a lot of work, though, and not something I have time to effectively oversee. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 04:10, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
:: Well you perhaps have noticed that the licensing on Wikipedia have migrated from GNU/FDL to [[wp:Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License|CC-by-sa]]. Something I am sure of is that noone contacted me to ask me any authorisation to change the license. Someone from my LUG explained me that the license migration process have proceeded as follow: the license was FDL version X or greater, they wrote a new FDL version so undated WP to this new one, and this new one was re-written in a cc-by-sa compatible way, so they have switched WP contents from FDL to [[wp:Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License|CC-by-sa]]. You should verify if the process was exactly this one. Also we should update the templates like the one on this page [[Mandelbrot_set]] because it tells the WP content is FDL while it is not anymore. Now should RC also switch from FDL to CC-by-sa, I have no opinion on the question. --[[User:Blue Prawn|Blue Prawn]] 17:39, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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