--- Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/06, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
For the same reason that cc-by-sa is often preferred to cc-by. The viral nature of share-alike -- which is what the GFDL amounts to -- means that reusers have to put modifications under the same free licence. This means that the content is more free and therefore furthers our mission.
And...? ;-)
I actually deleted my next sentence from my post for fear of being flamed: "I personally disagree with this and think that the fewer restrictions placed on work beyond simple attribution the better."
(I license my work cc-by.)
I agree. Copyleft can be useful, but the biggest problem with it is that it tends to prevent you combining with other copyleft work. To quote Lawrence Lessig: "all of these licenses were written without regard to the fundamental value of every significant advance in the digital age interoperability."
-- Matt
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