On Tue, 1 May 2007, Michael Snow wrote:
By allowing
even a single
non-Wikimedia Foundation site to reap any sort of financial benefit, a
possible conflict of interest now exists.
Wow, that's a breathtakingly broad thesis. Apparently the Wikimedia
Foundation has an ethical obligation to actively prevent remote
downstream commercial activity, because it could be a conflict of
interest for us if completely independent outside parties somehow benefit.
The ethical obligation happens because Wikia being "completely independent"
is just a legal technicality, and doesn't mean there's no conflict of
interest.