2009/3/2 wikinewssvt@optonline.net:
Regarding the Wikipedia license change ...
... It is my belief that after they make their change, Wikinews will be able to cut and paste passages from Wikipedia.
Is my assumption correct or false?
My understanding is that it's considered legal to mix CC-BY and CC-BY-SA articles, as long as the resultant combined work is labeled CC-BY-SA. So if that's the case, you could import WP content under the new licensing regime, but the Wikinews article would then become CC-BY-SA.
Copying CC's Mike Linksvayer in case he wants to weigh in.
Erik