Simo,
simo wrote:
The GFDL has always been a controversial license and it was clear very
soon after Wikimedia adopted it that it's language was not right for
that content. Most people agree that a CC-BY-SA would have been a more
appropriate license, so maybe the update *does* reflect what most
authors thought was the right direction.
Well, that's more speculation - I'm quite happy to believe most / all
authors think it is the right thing, but who knows?
It's pretty much beside my point, though. It's not so much whether this
is right or wrong, but whether the *mechanism* is right or wrong. It
sets a precedent that the FSF feel ok using the "or later" clause to
re-license other people's work without their permission, and I feel
that's a dangerous precedent.
I also worry about it making Wikipedia's problem worse with the forking
issues, but that's really Wikipedia's problem again. And, to be frank,
this has been their problem all along: they chose the wrong license, and
now it's being "fixed" with this hack. I appreciate that the FSF is
trying to help them; I just don't think this is the right way to do it:
Wikimedia should be cleaning up their own mess.
It's called "The tyranny of good intentions"