Stevertigo wrote in part:
Ironically, the notion that "your not supposed to
make
$$ off of X" (as a claim) is kinda antithetical to
the whole notion of lawsuits, which tend to be about
"only Ims supposed to make money off X".
That's not the motivation of the FSF people, of course --
yet even so, they don't endorse that notion in the first place!
Commercial application is irrelevant to the GNU licences.
And Wikimedia seems to be in line with that too.
And in the
end, regardless of GNUFDL, a civil win would be
represented (symbolically) in dough.
I'd expect any lawsuit initiated by the FSF, at least,
to have a cease-and-desist effect as its main goal.
Although Wikimedia is not a GNU project (as we know),
there are probably enough people here against profiting
that we'd also confine ourselves to that goal in our suits.
(Not that such a suit would be very practical in the first place
with such a large number of plaintiffs to manage.
Or could we initiate a class action?)
Otherwise why would anyone bother forking out for a
lair?
???
-- Toby