Slashdot is reporting that the Wikipedia community is voting on migrating from the GFDL license to CC-BY-SA. The change has been proposed to increase interoperability between other open content. Slashdot member “bcrowell” expressed his or her support of the initiative with the following:
If you have a WP account with at least 25 edits before March 15, please vote yes on this. The only reason WP picked GFDL was that CC-BY-SA didn’t exist when WP began. GFDL and CC-BY-SA are the same style of license; they’re both GPL-ish as opposed to BSD-ish, because they both require derived works to be under the same license…
Also reported by Creative Commons.
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