Again, this is a policy discussion better suited to another list. Let's keep this one technical.
Christopher Mahan wrote:
I wold not like encarta or any other for-profit org to use the edits I have made. If they want me to edit their encyclodedia, I'm $50/hr.
Well, under the GNU FDL and the principles of freedom espoused by GNU, they can use the edits you have made. As for me, I *want* for-profit entities to use our encyclopedia -- one fond hope is that after we get to a 1.0 release (which will be prepped by us specifically for ease of use by publishers) the market will be flooded by for-profit printers all over the world.
The key concept here is not 'profit' versus 'non-profit', but rather 'proprietary' versus '(GNU) free'.
--Jimbo