On 6. Aug 2021, at 13:24, Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com> wrote:

On 06.08.21 11:44, Richard Brown wrote:

As one of the many copyright holders who contributed under the GFDL I
would strongly object to any relicensing of my contributions to the
openSUSE wiki.

*any* relicensing? No matter what the new license is?

Generally speaking, yes. I typically take care to consider which licenses I contribute under and shy away from any CLA or other mechanism for allowing relicensing.

I would consider it if I, along with all other license holders, are approached and asked nicely but that does not seem to be consistent of the modus operandi of those orchestrating this migration.

Note: the doc.opensuse.org sources are licensed diferently with the
full blown GPLv3 license:

GPLv3 would be unacceptable for your contributions as a new license?
Why?

Well I outright refuse to contribute to any “GPLvX or later” licensed software as the “or later” clause gives the FSF rights to change the GPL in future versions and have them apply to those old code bases. Considering the FSFs terrible judgement in its leadership decisions lately I think that’s understandable.

While I am less hardline on the GPLv3 generally, I still typically shy away from it because it contains clauses that govern how a user may use the licensed software.

I also think the GPLv3 is a bloody stupid license for use for documentation.

Regardless though, your point is irrelevant to the topic at hand - the wikis license and doc.openSUSE.orgs license are different with competing clauses, and anyone trying to merge both licensed works together needs to do the footwork to honour the licenses of the existing works, with the consent of the affected copyright holders.

Any talk of actually migrating any content to a new platform before that is done is premature at best or a potential license infringement at worst.