[Foundation-l] Licensing resolution

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Thu May 28 00:31:24 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Benj. Mako Hill <mako at atdot.cc> wrote:
>
>> This is very important. Wikis licensed under the GFDL after August 1st
>> will not be compatible with Wikimedia wikis.
>>
>> Those wikis will sometimes be able to pull from Wikimedia projects but
>> will never be able to merge their content into Wikimedia wikis.
>
>
> Unless the WMF decides to switch back to GFDL only.
>

And arguably, even that isn't required.  Sure, any CC-BY-SA-only content
would be in violation of the GFDL, but that's true regardless of what the
WMF says.


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