On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project

As someone that has worked with Craft it has a ton of awful edge cases once you get deep into a project.

Craft absolutely does not scale.

I wasn't familiar with Craft. Looking at it they seem to have their own license and it seems pretty restrictive. Can anyone point to any existing discussions about the implications of the license and if it is truly open source?

I understand FOSS projects that have some kind of payment option, but I don't understand how the code can be available but there is no way to run it without paying for it. The language of the license is also rather informal. As a layman it has an appeal to me but at the same time I'm wondering how some of those things are defined.

What if you want a cdn outcome which doesn't drive to an sql backend?

I've yet to experience wp consciously without it making me wince. I know a lot of former print press is using it, so the for profit sector likes it. That does not axiomatically make it best of breed.

Being php is also not axiomatically worst of breed. The questions are decoupled really.

1) is wp still php

2) is wp best of breed.

3) if you want static site through cdn is wp the best fit?