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Why not switch over to a better license incrementally? Create categories for 'GFDL 1.2' and 'whatever new license', dump everything current into the old-license category, encourage new pages to go into the new license, then review old pages to contact the authors. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 18:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
: The question then becomes, to which license? I dislike GPL 3, as I find its stance on patents to be counterproductive. GPL2 is fine, but I tend to prefer attribution licenses (i.e. CC-Attrib, without the SA or NC sections) or even public-domain. (Though I believe not all countries have a concept of PD.) And, ultimately, I don't have the resources to enforce the licenses, and I don't like the idea of handing over that responsibility to the FSF or similar, as then it becomes limited by what suits their aims.
: But then, while this is my site, and I have the ultimate say, if I screw up here, I'll drive off many of my most valuable users--the people who actually edit, review and contribute tasks and code. So if we do any sort of sitewide license switch, I'll need the involvement of as many of Rosetta Code's active contributers as I can get in the discussion. And judging by the history of source code and license philosophy, it's likely to be a messy, convoluted one. I don't think wikitalk will be a good format for it. (I wonder if a NNTP hierarchy could be built out of the MediaWiki categories, and the Talk namespace pages be replaced with an interface to it. I'd be most comfortable in an environment like that. But that risks getting expensive in bandwidth and disk space.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 06:01, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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