Wikipedia is currently under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), a licence that causes incompatibility problems with the content also being released under Creative Commons licenses. At a party in San Francisco on Friday, Jimmmy Wales announced that the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation behind Wikipedia, supports a solution created by the Free Software Foundation and [...]
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Wikipedia to support migration to CC-BY-SA licensing
December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Creative Commons · GFDL · Licensing · Open content orgs
‘CC-0′: A new Creative Commons licence in the works
November 26th, 2007 · Comments Off
Hidden in an announcement about Public.Resource.org releasing US federal court opinions on its site (these works are not in copyright), Creative Commons and the Public.Resource.org press release mentions “CC-0″:
The cases will be marked with a new Creative Commons mark — CC-Ø — that signals that there are no copyrights or other related rights attached to [...]
Tags: Creative Commons · Licensing · Open content · Open content orgs
