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* The Foundation requests that the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License] be modified in the fashion proposed by the FSF to allow migration by mass collaborative projects to the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ Creative Commons CC-BY-SA] license; |
* The Foundation requests that the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License] be modified in the fashion proposed by the FSF to allow migration by mass collaborative projects to the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons CC-BY-SA] license; |
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* Upon the announcement of that relicensing, the Foundation will initiate a process of community discussion and voting before making a final decision on relicensing. |
* Upon the announcement of that relicensing, the Foundation will initiate a process of community discussion and voting before making a final decision on relicensing. |
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Revision as of 19:12, 1 December 2007
Whereas the Board seeks to respond responsibily to longstanding community concerns about issues of compatibility between the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license, as well as to continue longstanding traditions of strong community input and control over major decisions affecting the projects, and
Whereas a long period of discussion and negotiation between and amongst the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, the Wikimedia Foundation and others has produced a proposal supported by both the FSF and Creative Commons to modify the Free Documentation License in such a fashion as to allow the possibility for the Wikimedia Foundation to migrate the projects to CC-BY-SA, and
Whereas, Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) would like formal support for this license change,
It is hereby resolved that:
- The Foundation requests that the GNU Free Documentation License be modified in the fashion proposed by the FSF to allow migration by mass collaborative projects to the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license;
- Upon the announcement of that relicensing, the Foundation will initiate a process of community discussion and voting before making a final decision on relicensing.
5 approval (Jimmy, Florence, Jan-bart, Erik, Frieda), 1 missing vote (Kat)