Peter Gervai wrote:
As far as I understand "GFDL" is "viral" because it provides that any modifications, copies or any possible use can only result free documents (under the same license).
So using CC would mean that the articles could be copied and used in closed documents, without giving anything back to community. I would not really like to spend my time for someone's unshared gains, you see (see cddb's story, etc.).
On the plus side (for those who share your viewpoint), this is pretty much moot at this point, because we have nearly 300,000 articles under the GFDL, from thousands of authors we would be unable to track down to request permission for a license change, so a license change is simply impossible without just starting over from scratch.
-Mark