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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 SamP2 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow, so RMS is actually for once willing to put the good of the overall free software community in front of his own fundamentalist vision about good and evil? Hmm, there may be hope for the FSF after all.

  2. 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.