[Foundation-l] GFDL CC announcement

[Jimmy Wales]

Thanks to Florence for posting the resolution.  Now, community, we have 
a lot to talk about. :)


Florence Devouard wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/
>>
>> I've emailed the comcom and Jimbo asking for the first-hand details.
>>
>>
>> - d.
> 
> Well, you might be surprised, but the board sometimes is first-hand 
> source on information it votes upon. Which is the current case.
> 
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update
> 
> Let me copy below the text of this resolution for easy access
> 
> 
> Whereas the Board seeks to respond responsibily to longstanding 
> community concerns about issues of compatibility between the GNU Free 
> Documentation License and the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license, as well 
> as to continue longstanding traditions of strong community input and 
> control over major decisions affecting the projects, and
> 
> Whereas a long period of discussion and negotiation between and amongst 
> the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, the Wikimedia Foundation 
> and others has produced a proposal supported by both the FSF and 
> Creative Commons to modify the Free Documentation License in such a 
> fashion as to allow the possibility for the Wikimedia Foundation to 
> migrate the projects to CC-BY-SA, and
> 
> Whereas, Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) would 
> like formal support for this license change,
> 
> It is hereby resolved that:
> 
> * The Foundation requests that the GNU Free Documentation License be 
> modified in the fashion proposed by the FSF to allow migration by mass 
> collaborative projects to the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license;
> 
> * Upon the announcement of that relicensing, the Foundation will 
> initiate a process of community discussion and voting before making a 
> final decision on relicensing
> 
> -----------
> 
> I invite you to read very carefully the last paragraph of the approved 
> resolution.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Florence Devouard
> 
> 
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