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[fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Submitted news - Community] "I spent more time than I would like to admit massaging the process that ultimately led to the release of the the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 (GFDL) by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Hours counted, it was probably one of my biggest personal projects this year [...] There are many reasons for this change but the most important is that the move reduces very real barriers to collaboration between wikis and free culture projects due to license compatibility..."

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[Copyrighteous] Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3 :: Copyrighteous: of Wikipedia -- without question the crown jewel ofthe free culture world -- represents a real relinquishing of a type ofpolitical control and power for the FSF. Doing so was not done lightly.But giving communities the choice to increase compatibility andcollaboration by switching to a fundamentally similar license was andis, in my opinion, the right thing to do.

[Open Access News] Peter Suber, Open Access News: Notably, since both the GFDL and CC's BY-SA license have copyleft or "share alike" clauses, content under those licenses can only be mashed and combined with other content under the same license -- so the vast body of content in Wikipedia can't be repurposed for CC-licensed materials, and vice versa.

[Lessig Blog] Enormously important news from the Free Software Foundation ...: That means, the Wikipedia community now has the choice to relicense Wikipedia under a Creative Commons license.It would be hard to overstate the importance of this change to the Free Culture community.This change would now permit interoperability among Free Culture projects, just as the dominance of the GNU GPL enables interoperability among Free Software projects. It thus eliminates an unnecessary and unproductive hinderance to the spread and growth of Free Culture.

[Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog] Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » GFDL v.1.3 + CC ...: The incompatibility between these two licenses has been an obstacle to moving material back and forth between these sites. The new provision of FDL version 1.3 will give Wikipedia and other wikis another chance to choose the licensing policies they prefer.”

[Technocrat] understand GFDL 1.3: A very simple principle is at work there and the FSF has done an elegant job expressing it legal language: The Wikipedia Foundation is permitted to convert any Wikimedia-specific content they like from GFDL to CC-BY-SA but they are not permitted to convert content first published under GFDL "elsewhere", before being published in Wikimedia without obtaining separate permission from the copyright holders.

[heise online - Grand unified feed] GFDL 1.3: Opening up to the Creative Commons - heise online UK: Nevertheless, in future Wikipedia will still contain a mixture of licences, so anyone who wants to reuse content will have to check exactly what licence it is subject to. Möller writes "Later this month, we will post a re-licensing proposal for all Wikimedia wikis which are currently licensed under the GFDL", in order to explain clearly which content is to remain under the GFDL.

[Helge's Blog] Wikipedia endlich unter einer wirklich freien Lizenz! · Helge's Blog: Lizenzrechtlich hat die WMF durch die neue Version der GFDL jetzt temporär die Möglichkeit, in bestimmten Bereichen von GFDL zu CC-BY-SA zu wechseln. Eine solche Entscheidung wird aber nur dann gefällt werden, wenn die Community damit einverstanden ist.

[Advogato] Advogato: Open Letter to Richard Stallman: The implicit promise is that if you trust the FSF, then you can trust that any future license that they release will remain true to the original principles that the current license you are now using espouses. If you agree with the principles, and trust the FSF to stick to them for future details, you use the extra clause, which gives you added flexibility and possibly protection from future threats, such as new legal landscapes, bugs in old versions of the license, etc.

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[Jamendo Blog » Español] Jamendo Blog » Blog Archive » Breaking news: Wikipedia announces ...: [...] Wikimedia Foundation, FSF si Creative Commons au incheiat un accord prin care continutul Wikipedia va putea fi re-licentiat sub Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (cc by-sa). Articolele Wikipedia sunt momentan sub licenta GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License), dar FSF o va modifica pentru a o face compatibila cu cc by-sa.

[Citizendium Blog] Citizendium Blog » Is Wikipedia available for use under CC-by-sa yet?: I have to say I’m not so happy that Wikipedia might be using original Citizendium articles without the licenses really being interoperable.  In short, if they want to release our articles under the GFDL, we should be able to release theirs under CC-by-sa.

[Boycott Novell] Boycott Novell » Links 05/11/2008: Theora 1.0 Released, GFDL Now ...: The Community Edition is available for free download immediately under the GNU Public License version three (GPLv3).

[Open Access News] Peter Suber, Open Access News: What I’m happy to announce tonight is that just yesterday the Wikimedia Foundation board voted to approve a deal between the FSF and CC and Wikimedia. We’re going to change the GFDL in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license....

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