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