Rich Holton wrote:
I've been involved in Wikipedia since fairly early
on, and as far as I
recall, it was *always* a major objective of Wikipedia to be reusable
for other purposes. As soon as the decision was made to use the GFDL,
that was a given.
Could you point me to more on that history?
Having spent a long-time soaking in the open-source software world, I
assumed Wikipedia picked the GFDL for the same reason that devs often
pick the GPL. Namely, that they want contributors to be assured that
their work will stay free-as-in-speech.
If the goal were mainly to make Wikipedia reusable for other purposes,
then wouldn't a BSD-ish license be more appropriate?
William
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