Month: December 2007

The latest FSF newsletter is now online:

http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2007/fall/

There’s an interview with me at the back in which I discuss free art, free culture, collaborative authorship, how lovely the GPL 3 is and why it makes perfect sense that Free Software licences should tackle Tivoisation.

Before you get to that there are also articles by Ben Mako Hill, Brett Smith, Peter Brown and Ben Klemens, and a cartoon.

If you join the FSF you can get a print copy as well, among other benefits. Join here and tell them I sent you.

Some good news on the BY-SA/FDL compatibility and Wikipedia relicencing fronts:

Resolution:License update – Wikimedia Foundation

Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia

Some important news from Wikipedia to understand clearly

And the Slashdot discussion about this is a good mixture of FUD and answers as usual

The FSF moving towards BY-SA/SFDL compatibility and Wikipedia moving towards relicencing are all very good news.

An unexpected effect of all this seems to be renewed calls for BY-SA to have “stronger” copyleft, which would be a good thing if possible. It’s time to put aside legalistic objections (which have never been raised against NC’s conception of use) and community objections (which amount to a defence of breaking the social contract of copyleft) and try to move to stronger copyleft for BY-SA.