Cubelogic Improv

A month ago the FSF has released the GNU Free Document License version 1.3, that allows certain wikis such as Wikipedia to be relicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (v3.0).

This change would now permit interoperability among Free Culture projects, just as the dominance of the GNU GPL enables interoperability among Free Software projects. [...]

Richard Stallman deserves enormous credit for enabling this change to occur. [...] Wikipedia was made possible by the architecture of freedom the FDL enabled. One could well understand a lesser man finding any number of excuses for blocking the change.

But here’s what Richard said in 2002 in a different context:

“If we don’t want to live in a jungle, we must change our attitudes. We must start sending the message that a good citizen is one who cooperates when appropriate….”

Add “good citizen” to the list of praise for this founder of contemporary freedom.

Full article at lessig.org