JW> I notice that you're currently using the Creative Commons JW> by-sa (attribution share-alike) license. That's a good JW> license, nearly identical in spirit to the GNU FDL but not, in JW> my opinion, strictly compatible. Yes, I'm pretty sure they're incompatible, actually. JW> Since you're only a few days in, you could still switch to GNU JW> FDL easily enough -- this might be best for you, if you JW> envision a lot of content sharing between your site and JW> wikipedia (which seems natural). I realize that the license incompatibility with Wikipedia articles is a serious problem. http://www.wikitravel.org/article/Wikitravel:Why_Wikitravel_isn't_GFDL However, I think that the GFDL isn't really compatible with our goals for Wikitravel. http://www.wikitravel.org/article/Wikitravel:Goals_and_non-goals Specifically, we want to make it really easy for a tourist information office, a hotel or guesthouse, or a party planner to have a stack of copies of a Wikitravel article for use by customers/visitors. The heavyweight nature of the GFDL would make it hard for them to comply: just having to redistribute the entire license text and a changelog makes it unreasonable for 1-2 page articles, and having to distribute source code is just out of the question. The Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 just requires a copyright notice and the URL of the license -- small enough to fit in a little paragraph at the end of an article. It really bothers me a lot that the license incompatibilities make it hard to borrow content from Wikipedia. I've thought about doing a dual license, so that at least Wikitravel content could be shared into Wikipedia, if not vice versa, but it seems like a lot of trouble (and explaining). The only consolation I have is that a lot of encyclopedic content isn't really applicable for a travel guide. But there is a lot of crossover. The trade-off is painful but apparently necessary. JW> I'm enthusiastic about your project, and I think the idea is JW> excellent. Thanks for the support. We're excited about the project, too! ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou evan(a)prodromou.san-francisco.ca.us