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[madisonian.net] A Rumble in the Wiki/Licensing World: Wikimedia Foundation Moves ...: The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has proposed that the copyright licensing terms on the wikis operated by the WMF ”” including Wikipedia ”” be changed to include the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license in addition to the current GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This will affect all text and rich media (images, sound, video, etc.) currently licensed under “GFDL 1.2 or later versions”.

[fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Submitted news] Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All ...: "Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The proposal was approved by a 75 percent majority of community voters as announced this week..."

[The Blog Pirate] Wikipedia to Adopt Creative Commons License | The Blog Pirate: [...] Wikipedia to Adopt Creative Commons License The Wikimedia Foundation, after a community vote and approval by the Board of Trustees, announced that Wikipedia will primarily be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA). The license is likely to be applied to the sites sometime during the next month.

[We Love Crowds] Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content: Although the proposal has not yet been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees, chairman Michael Snow wrote, "The volunteers who work on Wikimedia projects have very strongly supported making their contributions available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License in addition to the GNU Free Documentation License. Updating our license terms will support Wikimedia's charitable mission by making our projects legally compatible with others that have chosen the CC-BY-SA license.

[HASTAC - Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory] Wikipedia Goes Creative Commons: As the decision to re-license was approved by both the Wikimediavolunteer community and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, theorganization is now taking steps to update all its licensing termsthrough June. With the dual-license system in place, content can be befurther re-used under either the GFDL or the CC-BY-SA license, but theGFDL will be dropped from content objects where this is necessary tosupport remixing it with existing CC-BY-SA content.

[OStatic blogs] Wikimedia Gets Creative: Adopts Creative Commons Licensing For ...: A Creative Commons licensing model certainly feels a little more fitting and logical than the former GFDL terms, but at Wikipedia's inception GFDL was the most appropriate, comprehensive license that meshed with the open encyclopedia's vision.

[Open Access News] Peter Suber, Open Access News: With the full approval of our Board of Trustees, this now means that the Wikimedia Foundation will proceed with the implementation of a CC-BY-SA/GFDL dual license system on all of our project's content. The new dual license will begin .

[Wikipedia in the News] Wikipedia to Go Creative Commons - WebProNews - The Wikipedia Review: by Juan Carlos Peréz The Wikimedia Foundation will change the terms under which it licenses the content in Wikipedia, the organization said Thursday. By adopting the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA), Wikimedia expects to make .

[Spin Valley Post] Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content: Although the proposal has not yet been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees, chairman Michael Snow wrote, “The volunteers who work on Wikimedia projects have very strongly supported making their contributions available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License in addition to the GNU Free Documentation License. Updating our license terms will support Wikimedia’s charitable mission by making our projects legally compatible with others that have chosen the CC-BY-SA license.

[Creative Commons » Commons News] Wikipedia community votes 75% in favor of CC BY-SA - Creative Commons: Just an example: “If you want to re-use pages under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, you must verify, for every page you re-use, that it does not include information that is exclusively licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.”

[Guilda Blog] 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.

[Creative Commons » Commons News] Wikipedia community vote on migration to CC BY-SA begins now ...: I always felt the invariant sections part of the documentation license was not in keeping with these characteristics of copyleft. But I fear that including the attribution condition in the copyright terms for wiki works will lead to an unfortunate modification of the very best characteristics of the (pre-freakout) American tradition.

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