The initial setup screen currently provides the following licensing options:
- No license metadata
- Public domain
- GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 (Wikipedia-compatible)
- GNU Free Documentation License 1.3
- A Creative Commons license <with a selection script for which variant>
These options are not very complete and in light of the relicensing resolution are going to be inaccurate as well.
The problems I would point out:
- No option for "GFDL" without version number (which legally translates to "any version" if no version is specified)
- No option for GFDL with an "or later versions" clause. By specifying a particular version without using the "or later" clause, the user is largely locking themselves into that specific version indefinitely. Generally not good.
- No option is available for dual licensing, e.g. GFDL / CC-BY-SA like Wikipedia will be.
- "Wikipedia-compatible" will not be a fitting description once we move to CC-BY-SA as our primary license and no longer allow the import of GFDL-only text.
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