* Alex Hudson wrote, On 05/11/08 11:37:

David Gerard wrote:

2008/11/5 MJ Ray <mjr-uWYXIsyQkeEe6eUIopPxIg@public.gmane.org>:

Did anyone have an inkling that this was coming and kept pumping FDL'd manuals into a wiki just in case?

Uh, it's only been on the cards (GFDL and CC-by-sa compatibility in some regard) for, what, two years now. If you're surprised, you weren't paying attention, and it's hard to see that as a fault with everyone else.

There's a rather large difference between "compatibility" and "relicensing without an author's permission", though.

It's helped me make up my mind about the "or later" clause though... I always thought the main issue would be trust of future as yet unknown FSF leaders.

I wonder that wikipedia wasn't just mentioned outright instead of a vaguer sounding clause that has an additional unknown quantity of leaks

Sam