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[ReadWriteWeb] 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.

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[Mike Linksvayer] Conjectured impact of Wikipedia license interoperability? « Mike ...: The difficulty here is measurement, but given academic interest in Wikipedia and the web generally, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the requisite data sets (historical and ongoing) and expertise brought together to analyze the use of Wikimedia project content elsewhere over time. Note that a larger than expected (there’s the rub) increase in such use could be the result of CC BY-SA being more straightforward for users than the FDL (indeed, a major reason for the change) as much or more than the result of license interoperability.

[Creative Commons » Commons News] Wikimedia Foundation board approves license migration - Creative ...: In any case we are deeply gratified that such an overwhelming majority (88% of those who voted with an opinion) approved this change worked on over several years by the Free Software Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, and Creative Commons, are proud to stand with such trusted organizations, and will live up to that trust!

[fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published 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..."

[Education.au Blog] Tech-Ed Collisions » Wikimedia to adopt Creative Commons Licence: The decision will result in all of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects moving from the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) to the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) as their primary content license. The GFDL, which has served Wikipedia since its inception, will continue to be supported where possible, but not to the detriment of interoperability.

[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.

[The Blog Pirate] Wikipedia to Adopt Creative Commons License | The Blog Pirate: Because Wikipedia’s license was chosen by project founder Jimmy Wales when Creative Commons hadn’t yet been created, Wikipedia’s early commitment to free sharing and free re-use has actually worked against legal interoperability. Moreover, because the GNU FDL was designed for software documentation, some of its requirements (such as the requirement to include a copy of the license text with each copy) have encumbered re-use of Wikipedia content.

[HASTAC - Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory] Wikipedia Goes Creative Commons | HASTAC: Since their creation in 2002, the Creative Commons licenses haveprovided a practical and simple means for authors to choose licensesthat grant broader freedoms than publication under normal copyright.They have since seen strong adoption in science, education,photography, music, and many other areas. Major search engines, photosharing sites like Flickr, universities, archives and libraries haveall begun supporting the Creative Commons licensing model, and the ideaof a culture which grants broad freedoms to remix and re-useinformation has become mainstream.

[iTWire - Latest Headlines] iTWire - Wikimedia adopts Creative Commons: Wikipedia has adopted the 'Attribution Share Alike' version of the licence. According to Creative Commons, "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

[The Wikipedian] » License to Chill: What Does Wikipedia's Adoption of Creative ...: The proposal to see Wikimedia’s content adopt a new dual license system has been voted on and approved by the Wikimedia community. 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.

[ResourceShelf] ResourceShelf » Blog Archive » Wikimedia Foundation announces ...: The decision will result in all of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects moving from the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) to the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) as their primary content license. The GFDL, which has served Wikipedia since its inception, will continue to be supported where possible, but not to the detriment of interoperability.

[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.”

[Computer Nerds Blog] Wikipedia Moving From GFDL To Creative Commons License | Computer ...: FilterMapReduce writes “The Wikimedia Foundation has resolved to migrate the copyright licensing of all of its wiki projects, including Wikipedia, from the GNU Free Documentation License to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. The migration is scheduled to be completed on June 15.

[Creative Commons » Commons News] Outreach to GFDL liensed wikis: migrate to CC BY-SA by August 1st ...: In a nutshell: CC work won’t be fully compatible with Wikipedia until the switch, and the GFDL includes potentially onerous provisions on reuse (printing out of the license, etc.)

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