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Wikipedia Moving From GFDL To Creative Commons License

Posted by timothy on from the please-discuss-in-the-talk-section dept.

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."

2 of 90 comments (clear)

  1. Just wait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Filthy open-source commie basement dwelling pinkos like Richard Marx Stalin and Lenin Torvalds to exhibit the most severe nerd rage in recorded history, far surpassing the current record which was the first time CmdrTaco saw Goatse.

  2. So? by sexconker · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does this mean the content on wikipedia (which is shamelessly copied from other sites, textbooks, etc.) will be any more "free" or any less butchered, biased, or factually incorrect?