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[http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20081110-00 Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3] copyrighteous Mon, 10 Nov 2008 | [http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20081110-00 Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3] copyrighteous Mon, 10 Nov 2008 | ||
| − | More detail at: [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/046996.html GFDL 1.3 Release] (Foundation-l posting by Erik Möller): | + | More detail at: |
| + | * [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation LicenseVersion 1.3] 3 November 2008, at the Free Softare Foundation's website. | ||
| + | * [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/046996.html GFDL 1.3 Release] (Foundation-l posting by Erik Möller): | ||
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We are very grateful to the Free Software Foundation for working with us | We are very grateful to the Free Software Foundation for working with us | ||
Revision as of 09:35, 10 December 2008
UPDATE: Relicensing is now possible:
Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3 copyrighteous Mon, 10 Nov 2008
More detail at:
- GNU Free Documentation LicenseVersion 1.3 3 November 2008, at the Free Softare Foundation's website.
- GFDL 1.3 Release (Foundation-l posting by Erik Möller):
We are very grateful to the Free Software Foundation for working with us to develop this re-licensing language.
The only change is the addition of section 11, "Relicensing". This section permits "massive multi-author collaboration websites" (i.e. wikis and wiki-like websites) to relicense GFDL content to the CC-BY-SA, under two key constraints:
- Newly added externally originating GFDL content cannot be relicensed
after November 1, 2008. (In other words, we should stop importing GFDL content from non-Wikimedia sources, unless they plan to switch as well...)
- The relicensing clause will expire on August 1, 2009.
Relicensing can only be done by the operator of such a website, not by any other party...
- As a heads up, communities should be more careful with importing
external FDL content, unless they know for sure that it will be migrated to CC-BY-SA in the near future.
Interoperability between CC-by-sa and GFDL has been requested by the Wikimedia Foundation board, which in late November 2007 passed a resolution:
- The Foundation requests that the GNU Free Documentation License be modified in the fashion proposed by the FSF to allow migration by mass collaborative projects to the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license. -- Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia, Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons blog, December 1st, 2007.
When is this actually happening?
CC-by
CC-by is one-way-compatible with GFDL - meaning that CC-by content can be used in GFDL work, by not vice-versa.
Source: James Grimmelmann, Associate Professor at New York Law School, (Institute for Information Law and Policy). ([cc-licenses] CC-BY=>CC-BY-SA/GFDL, Apr 19, 2007.)
See also [Wikinews-l] The Wikinews Licensure Poll is closed, Sep 2005.
Non-commercial licenses
No NC license can ever be compatible with GFDL.
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