opencontentlawyer » GFDL http://www.opencontentlawyer.com copyright, content, and you Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:53:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wikipedia to support migration to CC-BY-SA licensing http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/2007/12/wikipedia-to-support-migration-to-cc-by-sa-licensing/ http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/2007/12/wikipedia-to-support-migration-to-cc-by-sa-licensing/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:41:04 +0000 Jordan http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/2007/12/03/wikipedia-to-support-migration-to-cc-by-sa-licensing/ Continue reading →]]> 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 Creative Commons to a long-standing problem: mixing CC-BY-SA content and GFDL is a no go.

It looks like what will happen is Wikipedia will version up to a new GFDL that will allow for integration with the CC-BY-SA licence.

Video and transcript of announcement here.

Wikimedia resolution on updating the licence here.

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