[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

luke brandt shojokid at gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 04:25:05 UTC 2007


Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 9/10/07, Axel Boldt <axelboldt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The Wikimedia projects should switch from the GFDL to the CC-BY-SA
>> license.
> 
> I'm going to have to quickly kill this discussion.
> 
> The Foundation is in ongoing discussions with the FSF & CC about
> resolving issues with the GFDL & ensuring better compatibility between
> licenses. We will likely present one or multiple decision paths to the
> community soon for further discussion. This is not one of them, as we
> do not have to resort to a legally risky move if a newer version of
> the GFDL is released which meets our needs.
> 
> Please have a little more patience; we've been working on this issue
> for many months & we've been making significant progress.

To Eric and those interested,

You're invited to submit well-reasoned position statements on what
licensing scheme the *Citizendium* (http://www.citizendium.org/) should
use. See the link for details:

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:License_Essays







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