On 10/17/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
That would have the downside of lengthening the copyright terms on the stuff we produce.
How is that a downside (in practical terms, anyways)? Anybody who wishes to PD their contributions can already do so, and Wikipedia aims to be free-content, not necessarily public domain.
For the same reason that cc-by-sa is often preferred to cc-by. The viral nature of share-alike -- which is what the GFDL amounts to -- means that reusers have to put modifications under the same free licence. This means that the content is more free and therefore furthers our mission.