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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."

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  1. Backwards compatible by rhinokitty · · Score: 5, Informative

    The CCSA is backwards compatible with the GFDL.