On Friday 22 October 2004 22:12, Mark Ramm wrote:
I think many people choose the GPL because they don't want to see their work incorporated into proprietary projects. And I am certain that some of the developers of MediaWiki feel that way.
Perhaps the developers would be interested to sell a BSD-licensed MediaWiki 1.3.7 (or 1.3.8) for a fair price.
Projects that keep excellent track of contributors or require copyright assignments include MySQL and OpenOffice.org.
Even Linus Torvalds now wants kernel programmers to provide their real names and e-mail addresses. Linus will not accept patches if you don't give this info.
My site also works this way: I don't want articles if the author cannot be contacted.