On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I have no opposition, in principle, to just about any sort of license, so long as it preserves what I think are the essential features of our license, namely: that no one can make our work proprietary (closed). I would not be happy with a BSD-style license, for example.
But I do think that the practical obstacles to dual-licensing are pretty high.
The largest practical obstacle being that de GNU/FDL republication forbids under another or no license, whether it's stricter, less strict, or even effectively the same.
Andre Engels