Wikipedia’s License Changes

Mike Linksvayer at Creative Commons is reporting that the English Wikipedia has migrated from GFDL to CC BY-SA. The move was approved by the Wikipedia community recently following a proposal by Jimmy Wales in 2007. From the blog post:

Hooray for Jimmy Wales, founder of both Wikipedia and Wikia! (Note the two organizations are unrelated.) CC is fortunate to also have Wales as a member of our board of directors. Without his vision, this unification of free culture licensing would not have been possible.

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