[WikiEN-l] Non-Commercial Usage

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 22:37:09 UTC 2005


On 11/29/05, Karl A. Krueger <kkrueger at whoi.edu> wrote:

> The claim that "no businessman will lightly use material released under
> a Gnu-like license" seems rather unusual.  Today, some huge number of
> businesses do use and distribute material (specifically, software)
> released under just such licenses.

It could be argued that they do not however do so likely. Certian
element of the GFDL make it a pain in the neck to use for traditional
media. Particulary when you get the insane numbers of authors certian
wikipedia articles can rack up.


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geni



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