I’m curious about Gnomedex 5.0

Published on 2005-06-24 by Mark VandeWettering

Take a look at their announcement, especially concentrating on the What is Gnomedex… section.

Someone, please, explain it to me. Why is Gnomedex significant?

Addendum: Just what here requires a license at all, much less a Creative Commons License? We don’t need licenses for other data formats like HTML.