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Wikipedia Moving From GFDL To Creative Commons License
FilterMapReduce writes "The Wikimedia Foundation has resolved to migrate the copyright licensing of all of its wiki projects, including Wikipedia, from the GNU Free Documentation License to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. The migration is scheduled to be completed on June 15. After the migration, reprints of material from the wikis will no longer require a full copy of the GFDL to be attached, and the attribution rules will require only a link to the wiki page. Also, material submitted after the migration cannot be forked with GFDL "invariant sections," which are impossible to incorporate back into a wiki in most cases. The GFDL version update that made the migration possible and the community vote that informed the decision were previously covered on Slashdot."
I just got off the phone with the big guy, you know, RMS himself. St. Ignacio or whatever.
And he's fucking pissed.
He said and I quote, "Looks like these fuckers don't know who they're dealing with. They need to be taught a lesson... freedom ain't free."
Apparently, he's planning on liberating wikipedia by force.
What does Richard Marx have to do with all of this?
He's the number one selling soul singer songwriter of the 80's!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
I only read Wikipedia for the articles.
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