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Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons

Posted by Zonk on from the i'm-betting-it-was-kind-of-a-dorky-party dept.

sla291 writes "Jimmy Wales made an announcement yesterday night at a Wikipedia party in San Francisco : Creative Commons, Wikimedia and the FSF just agreed to make the current Wikipedia license compatible with Creative Commons (CC BY-SA). As Jimbo puts it, 'This is the party to celebrate the liberation of Wikipedia'."

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  1. Re:Strange... by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So sorry if every license doesn't line up with RMS's ideology. I like CC's approach- give the creator a smorgasbord of possible licenses, to allow him to easily license his work the way he wants. That's the point of a prewritten license.