On 12/25/05, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
The license and the way it is interpreted has been discussed and explained to the people that are involved with the license. The GPL is first going to be amended and then it will be the GFDL that will be modernised. The reason why is simple; the GFDL was not created with projects like Wikipedia in mind, it was intended for documentation associated with GPL software.
Perhaps it will, but the foundation will not be able steal credit from the actual authors of the works in Wikipedia for itself, at least not without a legal fight. Most quality works in Wikipedia are the work of a small number of authors per work, not these massively collaborative efforts as has been misrepresented to the free software foundation.
As such it would be ill advised to suggest to people that they do not need to provide attribution, so if thats what you were implying with you message I suggest you amend your words. Wikipedia will not fall under CC wiki like terms so long as I and others who care about the moral rights of authors have the financial means to prevent it.