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WikipediaWikipediaPosted Jan 12, 2006 15:17 UTC (Thu) by mepr (guest, #4819)In reply to: Wikipedia by ekj Parent article: The coming Debian GFDL collision
but the fundamental problem with using a non-free license whose non-free section is that you have to trust the document writers to never change their mind.
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Wikipedia Posted Jan 12, 2006 22:34 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link] but the fundamental problem with using a non-free license whose non-free section is that you have to trust the document writers to never change their mind.Hmmm. "The fundamental problem with using the GPL is that you have to trust the software writers to never change their mind." I always thought you simply continued to distribute the old version, forking it if/when you wanted to make changes... Authors can't retroactively change their minds about the licenses under which they previously distributed material. (If they could, any of us whose BSD-licensed software landed in MS Windows--for example--could do so and then get an injunction prohibiting further distribution of the larger work until the offending components were removed. I don't think you'll find too many legal systems that are willing to buy that argument.) Greg
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