The GFDL is still not dead
It has been over 5 years since we voted on the GNU FDL. At the time I was misled by certain people who insisted that they had inside knowledge and that the GFDL was going to be fixed within the year.
The FDL is still a bad license, and the successor meant to be less bad, the GSFDL, has not progressed beyond a discussion draft from September 2006.
Personally, I feel dirty having voted the way I did. We compromised our principles and ended up in a stalemate that many people on either side of the issue are still unhappy about to this day.
Hopefully I have learned my lesson.
Posted on 2011-06-27