User:Donald Trung/GNU Free Documentation License is harmful

Main gallery: Commons:GNU Free Documentation License.

As of February 2019 the GFDL license is still being used for WikiText additions on Wikimedia Commons.

This is an essay about the negative consequences GNU Free Documentation Licenses have on Wikimedia Commons.

How the GNU Free Documentation License could be misused

"There are two wikitext-specific issues (besides all the general issues) with GFDL here. We import many descriptions, from Flickr for example. While not every single description may be fully BY-SA compatible, they are virtually never GFDL. So our GFDL license already doesn't apply to a lot of our wikitext content. A more minor issue is that GFDL allows a third party to fork wikitext from Commons and improve it under only the GFDL, closing the door for Creative Commons." - Alexis Jazz (Mobile 📱).

The GNU Free Documentation License was the original license of Wikimedia websites, but this was later superseded by the Creative Commons license which is a lot more permissive.