Wikipedia to become compatible with CC BY SA license

Posted by karen on December 1, 2007 in Uncategorized

Big news — Yesterday the announcement was made that the Wikimedia Foundation has voted to change the GFDL license so that it is compatible with CC BY SA. That means that Wikipedia will be able to be licensed under CC BY SA. This will make content mixing much easier. Thanks to Jimmy Wales, Larry Lessig, and everyone else who made this possible.

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