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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."
My name is sexchestnut.
Offtopic? I've had some blatantly corrupt down-mods from the cult before, but this takes the cake.
You're stretching here, guys. I suppose you could, at a real stretch, claim that my extension of the GP's analogy was Offtopic; but it is a major stretch.
A hint, though; abusing the moderation system in order to exact revenge against me for writing things you don't like, is not really a legitimate use of said system. ;)