Difference between revisions of "Interoperability between Creative Commons licenses and GFDL"
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| + | [http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20081110-00 Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3] - --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 15:19, 15 November 2008 (UTC)copyrighteous Mon, 10 Nov 2008 | ||
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| + | More detail at: [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/046996.html [Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release]: | ||
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| + | We are very grateful to the Free Software Foundation for working with us | ||
| + | to develop this re-licensing language. | ||
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| + | 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: | ||
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| + | * 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...) | ||
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| + | * The relicensing clause will expire on August 1, 2009. | ||
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| + | Relicensing can only be done by the operator of such a website, not by | ||
| + | any other party... | ||
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| + | * 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. | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
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Interoperability between [[CC-by-sa]] and [[GFDL]] has been requested by the Wikimedia Foundation board, which in late November 2007 passed a resolution: | 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. -- ''[http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7876 Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia], Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons blog, December 1st, 2007.'' | :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. -- ''[http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7876 Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia], Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons blog, December 1st, 2007.'' | ||
Revision as of 16:19, 15 November 2008
UPDATE: Relicensing is now possible:
Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3 - --Chriswaterguy 15:19, 15 November 2008 (UTC)copyrighteous Mon, 10 Nov 2008
More detail at: [Foundation-l GFDL 1.3 Release]:
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.
Footnotes
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