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[Wikibooks News] Also, content reuse becomes far easier: Content reusers can use our content under GFDL, *OR* CC-BY-SA, *OR* both, whichever is their preference. Previously, reusers had to use our content under GFDL, which is often incompatible with other websites, which means (a) a complicated content embedding scheme, (b) complicated relicensing which is almost impossible, or (c) can't reuse our content at all.

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[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.

[Municipalist] Municipalist: Wikimedia Foundation replies to Municipalist ...: In closing, I hope the McCain campaign learns from this, as well as any campaign, organization or person who wants to use content from Wikipedia. Please do so responsibly, make sure your sources are cited, provide proper attribution, and try to use Wikipedia to dig deeper for content beyond just our articles.

[Openpedia.org] Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3 :: Copyrighteous: Wikipedia content will be set free for collaboration if licence ...: "The Foundation requests that the GNU Free Documentation Licensebe modified in the fashion proposed by the to allow migration .

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