Rich Holton wrote:
I've been involved in Wikipedia since fairly early on, and as far as I recall, it was *always* a major objective of Wikipedia to be reusable for other purposes. As soon as the decision was made to use the GFDL, that was a given.
Could you point me to more on that history?
Having spent a long-time soaking in the open-source software world, I assumed Wikipedia picked the GFDL for the same reason that devs often pick the GPL. Namely, that they want contributors to be assured that their work will stay free-as-in-speech.
If the goal were mainly to make Wikipedia reusable for other purposes, then wouldn't a BSD-ish license be more appropriate?
William