Compatibility between CC-BY and GFDL is the same as compatibility between CC-BY and CC-BY-SA: you may use CC-BY material (let's say a Wikinews article) inside of GFDL or CC-BY-SA material (let's say a Wikipedia article), but you are not able to do the reverse action.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
One question: now Wikinews is under CC-BY 2.5 (not CC-BY-SA). How will its compatibility to the other project licensing? Currently incompatibility of GFDL and CC-BY is a sort of hazard according to some people.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
We're still waiting for the FDL 1.3. Since there's been no resolution within the timeframe we hoped for, we're going to re-allow the creation of new Wikimedia wikis. To make sure that we can safely transition to CC-BY-SA, we're going to dual-license them under CC-BY-SA 3.0:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
We may remove this dual-licensing clause later, depending on what the community decides with regard to licensing of existing and new wikis based on the options that the FDL 1.3 will provide. This dual-licensing of new wikis is purely intended to make sure that we have the _option_ to transition these wikis to CC-BY-SA 3.0 (or later) if we choose to.
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