> As much as anything else it is the short time frame that will look > pushy. Wikipedia went through a lot of debate *before* the switch, and
The timeframe is a problem, absolutely. > the internal debates of others should not matter less. As I understand > what is being said they will still be able to import from WMF projects; For a limited time - until some bit of cc-sa material is incorporated into a given article. In a matter of months or years they will no longer be able to import text from the latest pages; they won't be able to choose then to relicense, because it will no longer be possible under GFDL 1.3. This is all we need to convey. If a given site doesn't care, great! but most people, even those familiar with this process and our discussions of it, do not understand the long-term implications of the august deadline. [In part because the limited-time-dual-licensing language muddies the issue, perhaps.] > If WMF projects can't copy from them it will more likely enhance the > uniqueness > of their project, a potentially positive result in a competitive market. I'm worried about small sites that want intercompatibility with WMF projects (which are the gorilla in the room), and larger ones whose communities expect this to be a standing option. In terms of raw content, the fraction of new material that is imported from sites that aren't already considering switching is small. But we have a certain obligation to act as stewards for the free sharing of knowledge, in a networked community that we have helped to build, including thousands of groups who we don't directly see on Wikipedia but who have made choices based on ours in the past. Sites for which compatibility isn't relevant, but choosing the right free license for wide reuse is, should also understand why we have wanted this change for years, and why we have decided to make the transition. We will help others by being proud of this and the thought (and thousands of legal person-hours) that went into it, not shy. SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
