Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com writes:
So my post-2009 scenario is going to rear its head with forks of Wikipedia that are going to be potentially incompatible - people still on GFDL at that point would be creating modifications which can't be merged back.
Yes, but isn't this inevitable no matter how the change of licence is done?
No, it's only a problem because the ability to relicense is time-limited.
In previous drafts I saw, there was an idea of being able to relicense to a "GNU Wiki License" which would have presumably been CC-BY-SA compatible without needing to relicense to that license - I was imagining a license akin to the GFDL in the way the LGPL is akin to the GPL.
If that option had been open-ended, it would have meant that forks could have been resolved to each other. With the current license, any forks unresolved before August 2009 are unresolvable again.
Cheers,
Alex.