[Foundation-l] What's wrong with CC-BY-SA?

[Andrew Whitworth]

> Greg will of course correct me if I'm wrong - but I suspect the
> problem is that lots of people want CC-by-sa because it's easier to
> reuse stuff ... but that GFDL makes it hard to reuse stuff is
> considered a *feature* by many, e.g. photographers who license work as
> GFDL but also sell it privately. That is: the thing that makes GFDL a
> pain in the backside for a wiki is precisely why they like it, and
> they want it to stay a pain in the backside for that reason.

Anybody who values this "feature" for use with WMF projects probably
doesn't understand what exactly we are all trying to do here.

--Andrew Whitworth