user_Jamesday wrote:
Copyleft is only necessary when you want to limit the
people who can
use the work. That's the antipathy of the objective of Wikinews, which
is to get the news published as widely as possible.
I don't disagree with much of what you said, but I wanted to add a
different perspective to what copyleft does. In many cases it does
*not* limit the people who can use the work, but rather serves as an
easy way to persuade them to make their own work available under a
free license as well.
--Jimbo