[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

[Erik Moeller]

2008/11/3 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> Being able to import CC-BY-SA content is one of the primary
>> motivations for re-licensing in the first place.

> I'd say allowing people to re-use our content under CC-BY-SA is the
> primary reason. Being able to import CC-BY-SA content is an added
> bonus (is there really much out there that we would want to use?
> There's some, sure, but I doubt there's enough to be worth the hassle
> of relicensing for it).

There's lots, and many large projects have chosen to adopt CC-BY-SA as
a standard license:

http://www.eoearth.org/
http://www.eofcosmos.org/
http://eol.org/ (for some content)
http://wikieducator.org/ , e.g. cool stuff like
http://wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools
http://en.citizendium.org/

and countless "open learning / open education" projects. Much of it
may be more relevant for Wikibooks / Wikiversity, but there's
nevertheless large amounts of textual content  under CC-BY-SA out
there that we may want to use. And that's just the English language
world.

The proposed re-licensing solution is meant to make it frictionless to
get stuff out of WP into these projects and vice versa. Any solution
that doesn't do so misses the point. IMO long-term FDL compatibility
is the "added bonus".
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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