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Hi Erik,

thanks for sharing this. Just a quick side question that popped up, do we
know how large percentage of GFDL material is on Wikimedia projects (only
counting text material)? It's a question that comes up now and then, and
somewhat related (ie how big of a player are we for the FSF)

Thank. BR,

Eia


2008/3/6, Erik Moeller <erik op wikimedia.org>:
>
> On 3/6/08, Oldak Quill <oldakquill op gmail.com> wrote:
> >  As an aside, how is Wikipedia/GFDL and CC-by-SA coming along? Is
> >  Wikipedia waiting on GFDL and CC-by-SA to work out compatibility?
>
> (CCing foundation-l, since folks there may be interested-)
>
> Creative Commons is working actively with us on the "migration checklist":
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035677.html
>
> They are internally discussing a draft statement of intent, and
> they've updated the CC frontpages to reference the Definition of Free
> Cultural Works. Plus, at this point there is a consensus between our
> two organizations that CC-BY-SA should function as a "strong copyleft"
> license, just not yet about the best way to achieve that.
>
> On the FSF side, we're waiting for a version of the GFDL that has the
> migration language in it; hopefully this will be approved soon.
>
> So, things are progressing. Given that there are multiple
> organizations involved, plus a commitment from us to only make the
> final step after consultation with the community, it's a complex
> process, but I'll hope we'll get there soon enough -- the
> incompatibility between CC-BY-SA and GFDL is a serious impediment for
> the free culture movement.
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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