On 6/19/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not sure a complete overhaul of the licensing would be necessary.
Without getting into a copyleft vs. BSD style argument, the MIT/X11
license chosen is at least one specific for source code -- whereas the
GFDL is not. Furthermore, Wikimedia has in the past demonstrated some
flexibility in choosing the licensing model most appropriate for our
content. Wikinews is CC-BY (no copyleft) in part because we want our
content to be maximally reused, and the potential for copyleft to kick
in on news content that expires quickly is relatively small.

Ah, my ignorace shows. I thought all WMF projects were GFDL; thanks for correcting me. So, I amend my statement about overhauling the copyright policy, as it could work with the MIT/X11 license. Too bad on not making it a sister project at this time, although I'll be sure to point the source code junkies their way when we run into them.