Re: Wordlist in Wiktionary

[Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org>]

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On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:01:04AM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Isam Bayazidi <ibayazidi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > Well.. basically they are 2 different licenses, and it isn't possible to 
> > have the GPL Wordlist put into the GFDL Wiktionary because the 2 licenses do 
> > not allow freely re licencing or moving the content between the different 
> > licenses, approval from authors or the copyright holder is a must.
> 
> That not withstanding, what are the differences which makes they
> "incompatible" and what are some of their drawbacks - in other
> words what is it that you gain/lose with one vs. the other ?  As
> noted, I read (via google) all sorts of opinions and wanted to hear
> what people on this list think and what the Wikipedia crowd believes.
> 
> Simply put - what would we lose if this GPL license became GFDL for
> the sake of argument ?  M.Sameer ?
> 

I need to do some research, But my idea is:
You can't restrict the modifications for GPL'ed code. But with FDL you can say that this part shouldn't be modified. I guess this is why they are not comatible.

I still think that FDL is the best thing. Maybe CC-non commercial-attribution.

I still need to have a more detailed look.

I'll try to do it tomorrow.

Best wishes,

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