[Foundation-l] Is there a Foundation preferred license?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The GFDL is the license that was available at the beginning unlike some 
of what would now be the more obvious. I am sure the GFDL would not be 
chosen when we were to chose a license for Wikipedia at this moment. The 
GFDL is imho not really suited for much of the data that we have. It was 
designed to license manuals to go with software.
Thanks,
    GerardM

Brianna Laugher wrote:
> Wikinews is CC-BY. So I think they will generally pick the best "open
> content" license that suits the project, with GFDL as the default
> choice.
>
> Brianna
> user:pfctdayelise
>
> On 08/11/06, luke brandt <shojokid at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi, Does the Foundation have any preference for a particular open
>> content license, eg GFDL ? Or is it strictly neutral on this 'legality'
>> I just saw some thought seems to have been given to this question:-
>>
>> [ Bylaws of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> ARTICLE I: NAME ...
>>
>> ARTICLE II: STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
>> The general purpose and objectives of the Foundation shall be the
>> following: Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to the development and
>> maintenance of online free, open content encyclopedias, collections of
>> quotations, textbooks and other collections of documents, information,
>> and other informational databases in all the languages of the world that
>> will be distributed free of charge to the public under a free
>> documentation license such as the Free Documentation License written by
>> the Free Software Foundation Inc. at http://www.fsf.org or similar
>> licensing scheme, see http://www.wikimedia.org. The goals of the
>> foundation are to encourage the further growth and development of open
>> content, social sofware WikiWiki-based projects ... ]