Wikipedia Community Vote On License Migration 95
mlinksva writes "A Wikipedia community vote is now underway on migrating to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike as the main content license for Wikimedia Foundation projects. This would remove a legal barrier to reusing Wikipedia content (now under the Free Documentation License, intended for narrow use with software documentation, because Wikipedia started before CC existed) in other free culture projects and vice versa."
Re:Existing content? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't recall being asked to allow my edits to be re-licensed later.
Think of your edits as free promotion for your concerts, and figure to make your money on T-Shirt sales.
Wiki Voting (Score:5, Funny)
It's a good thing they outsourced the voting. If they tried to handle it through the wiki, you'd have a good chance of the whole site being renamed Colbertpedia.
Re:Vote yes! - My stupid OSS license rant (Score:1, Funny)
All OSS licenses are windbaggy ideological bullshit
Bigot. All licenses are windbaggy ideological bullshit.
Re:There once was a page on WP about what WP was n (Score:3, Funny)
But didn't you read? It's not re-licensing. Nope, nope, it's not.
The following is how they did it:
1. Write a new version of the current licence.
2. *handwavey-magic*
3. The work is now under a different licence!
See? No re-licensing at all. Nope, not at all!