[Foundation-l] New wiki creation

[Milos Rancic]

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 at 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 at 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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