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[Quick Online Tips] Vote for Wikipedia to Use Creative Commons License: This migration would be a huge boost for the free culture movement, and for Wikipedia and Creative Commons ”” until the migration happens there is an unnecessary licensing barrier between the most important free culture project (Wikipedia of course, currently under the Free Documentation License, intended for software documentation) and most other free culture projects and individual creators, which use the aforementioned CC BY-SA license.

[www.johndbritton.com] Wikipedia License Update - GNU FDL + CC-BY-SA | www.johndbritton.com: The Wikimedia Foundation is currently holding a vote on the possibility of dual licensing the content of the various Wikipedias. To qualify to vote you must hold a Wikipedia account with at least 25 edits prior to March 15.

[The Blog Herald] Wikipedia Votes For Creative Commons License | The Blog Herald: This migration would be a huge boost for the free culture movement, and for Wikipedia and Creative Commons ”” until the migration happens there is an unnecessary licensing barrier between the most important free culture project (Wikipedia of course, currently under the Free Documentation License, intended for software documentation) and most other free culture projects and individual creators, which use the aforementioned CC BY-SA license.

[Creative Commons » CC News] Wikipedia community vote on migration to CC BY-SA begins now ...: This migration would be a huge boost for the free culture movement, and for Wikipedia and Creative Commons — until the migration happens there is an unnecessary licensing barrier between the most important free culture project (Wikipedia of course, currently under the Free Documentation License, intended for software documentation) and most other free culture projects and individual creators, which use the aforementioned CC BY-SA license.

[Wired: Threat Level] Free Culture Voting Underway for Wikipedia | Threat Level from ...: No, actually the GFDL is currently what makes using Wikipedia content a nightmare for simple people, because you are required by law to reprint both the entirety of the license and a list of every contributor, in addition to preserving invariant sections. That basically prevents anyone from republishing Wikipedia articles in accordance with the license, especially in print.

[ReadWriteWeb] Wikipedians to Vote on Site-Wide Creative Commons - ReadWriteWeb: The process to get to the Creative Commons license would start by dual-licensing existing content, and then allowing new third-party content created for Wikipedia to come in just under the CC BY-SA license. This will ensure that any content shared from Wikipedia in the future can be done under the now broadly-used terms of Creative Commons licensing and without the additional restrictions required by the GFDL, which was created more for application code documentation and is slightly more stringent, for example requiring anyone using the content to include the full license code with each use.

[WROTE] WROTE » Wikipedia to vote on change from GNU FDL to CC BY-SA: This migration would be a huge boost for the free culture movement, and for Wikipedia and Creative Commons ”” until the migration happens there is an unnecessary licensing barrier between the most important free culture project (Wikipedia of course, currently under the Free Documentation License, intended for software documentation) and most other free culture projects and individual creators, which use the aforementioned CC BY-SA license.

[Lessig Blog] the voting has begun -- and if you're in the wikipedia world ...: The argument is a simple one: We need a guarantee that free culture lives on a stable, interoperable licensing infrastructure, so the weakness of any one won't bring the whole enterprise down. To that end, we initially began conversations with the Free Software Foundation to see whether we might make the FDL directly interoperable with the CC-BY-SA license.

i-penny: The process to get to the Creative Commons license would start by dual-licensing existing content, and then allowing new third-party content created for Wikipedia to come in just under the CC BY-SA license. This will ensure that any content shared from Wikipedia in the future can be done under the now broadly-used terms of Creative Commons licensing and without the additional restrictions required by the GFDL, which was created more for application code documentation and is slightly more stringent, for example requiring anyone using the content to include the full license code with each use.

[All The Modern Things] All The Modern Things: Vote YES for licensing sanity!: This is the community consultation part of whether or not the Wikimedia Foundation officially chooses to make use of the “Wiki clause” that Richard Stallman so .So get your vote on and let the Wikimedia projects move forth under a sensible license!

[New Bloggers Center] New Bloggers Center: Quick Online Tips: When you add this to your blog the visitor will still see the Digg Toolbar for a second or so and then it will be removed (So for the visitor to go back to Digg they would have to click the back button twice). The Wikimedia community is voting to determine the course of licensing of this free content.

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