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navigation, search    just a few things...  Why not just use the
Creative Commons?[edit]  Creative Commons did not exist when
Wikipedia was created in early 2001. The Attributions-ShareAlike
license is very similar in spirit to the GFDL, but not quite
compatible with the present GFDL.  Why not switch to license
XYZ?[edit]  Even if we wanted to, that's not really possible.
Because contributors retain copyright to their submissions, it's
not possible to unilaterally change the license, unless the Free
Software Foundation consents to the change in a new version of
the GFDL. Note, you could try dual licensing your stuff (see
Guide to the CC dual-license) but that might not get very far if
many other users do not follow suit.  What about invariant
sections? Everyone says those are trouble.[edit]  Wikipedia
doesn't accept invariant sections. While someone could create a
derivative work from Wikipedia material and include invariant
sections in that, the origi