It is intended to become a large on-line textbook of medicine. By July 2007 it had reached 3000 topic pages and 380 editors from six countries:- The UK Australia New Zealand Canada Eire USA Only registered medical practitioners or persons working under their direction, and a small number of invited non-medical specialists, may edit ganfyd articles. A new and specific commons licence was created to maintain this restriction on material copied or propagated from ganfyd. This was designed with the inspiration of the Creative Commons licences.