[Foundation-l] Copies of Wikipedia's articles found on Knol

Sun Aug 3 21:04:50 UTC 2008

Hoi,
It is good to remember what Wikipedia aims to do. It aims to create an
encyclopaedic resource. It is good to remember what the Wikimedia Foundation
is there for. It ams to bring good information to all people in this world.

When Wikipedia started, the GFDL was selected. It has been plain for a long
time that this specific license is not the best for Wikipedia and the WMF.
This license was created to license the documentation that is created for
software. There is clarity in many circles that the CC-by-sa is a better
mouse trap for the knowledge that can be found in Wikipedia. This license
shares the same key characteristics with the GFDL including its viral
nature.

Technically it is possible to use the CC-by material that is created in Knol
in Wikipedia. Mike Godwin is apprehensive of doing exactly this because in
the analogous BSD - GPL world many hard words have been used because of the
lack of cooperation coming from GPL programmers when they incorporated BSD
software in the further development of the original BSD software.