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Wikipedia Community Vote On License Migration

Posted by samzenpus on from the raise-your-hand dept.

mlinksva writes "A Wikipedia community vote is now underway on migrating to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike as the main content license for Wikimedia Foundation projects. This would remove a legal barrier to reusing Wikipedia content (now under the Free Documentation License, intended for narrow use with software documentation, because Wikipedia started before CC existed) in other free culture projects and vice versa."

2 of 95 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Existing content? by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't recall being asked to allow my edits to be re-licensed later.

    Think of your edits as free promotion for your concerts, and figure to make your money on T-Shirt sales.

  2. Wiki Voting by isnoop · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a good thing they outsourced the voting. If they tried to handle it through the wiki, you'd have a good chance of the whole site being renamed Colbertpedia.