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Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 1, 2007 @08:37AM 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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Re:The incompatibility starts here by Anonymous Coward · 2007-12-01 10:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Disclaimer: This comment contains no legal advice.

Whew! Congrats. You sure dodged a bevy of lawsuits there. I myself was going to sue you for a pathetic post on this pathetic website, but now I cannot.