CZ:License Essays/Tom Kelly

I know it is little late - my apologies, I have been busy at school. However, GFDL is the only solution for our license issue.

While I know you will avidly hear opposition from the opposite side of the aisle, in the end, there will be much less frustration with one and only one license. Even my colleague Mr. Ewen has agreed that in the future, we will have even more GFDL based (mainly from Wikipedia) articles at Citizendium. As recruiting picks up, more Wikipedia users will come over and bring their articles with them.

One license elinates all headaches of having 2 licenses (for text). Management will be much easier. Article combination will be easier.

Readers around the world will benefit from one license.

Writers will benefit - their work will be read.

We are here on a selfless mission to educate the masses. While you may appease some writers by having a restrictive license in addition to GFDL, the readers trying to join the project and become fledgling writers will not be content with the frustration, nor the more casual user. The casual user will become the backbone of CZ if it is ever to become the great resource of knowledge, with expert guidance in the background "guiding the project."

You should be asking the backbone of CZ, the casual user and reader and future writer, what license to pick - not the expert writers.

Others may claim that GFDL will kill the project, where, in actuality, making the project frustrating will destroy the project. People join CZ for the community, for the caliber of writers, and for the ability to be verified by experts. Attract the masses, do not deter.

Pick GFDL.