Wikipedia Community Vote On License Migration

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."

Comments

Re:Existing content?

[Kjella]

Neat legal hack...

Or a clear violation of basic FLOSS principles like "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups", depending on how you look at it since it discriminates against everyone not Wikipedia. If the FSF can do that, there's in principle nothing against releasing a GPL4 that said "You have the right to relicense to BSD, as long as you're Richard Matthew Stallman". Or just make an equally bullshit definition that fits just him. Despite their good intentions I think it sets a bad precedent that is much broader.