[WikiEN-l] Escaping the GFDL -- can it be done?

[The Cunctator]

On 3/2/06, Steven Ericsson Zenith <steven at semeiosis.org> wrote:
>
> Philip is correct.  The only way to escape the GDFL is to rewrite the
> entire encyclopedia under a different license - or get every single
> contributor to agree to reassign the content.  Good luck with that.
>
> The first approach actually seems viable to me - see
> http://www.panopedia.org  :-)

Why did they choose Attribution-No Derivative Works? What an awful license.