Re: can Wikipedia apply "CC-BY-SA-compatible FDL" retroactively?

At 01:18 PM 8/10/2008, David Gerard wrote:
> > Since it was announced in December 2007 that they planned to make the
> > FDL compatible with CC-BY-SA, does that mean they're still working on
> > it?  Are their pro bono lawyers just really careful with things like
> > this, so they usually take a long time before coming out with a new
> > version of FDL that meets a specific goal?
>
>
>They are slooooooow. Because, obviously, they have to be sure they've
>gotten it *exactly* right. Wikimedia is by far the largest collection
>of GFDL material, but it certainly isn't the only one.

Is there any reason why they couldn't just say: "Version 1.3 of the 
GFDL is identical to CC-BY-SA"?

That would presumably meet the murky requirement that future versions 
of the GFDL have to be "in the same spirit" as the present one.

         -Bennett