[OWW-SC] CC & GFDL playing nice together

Austin Che austin at csail.mit.edu
Sun Dec 2 10:30:08 EST 2007


    Looks like they are finally merging together GFDL and CC BY-SA
    (the two licenses used by OWW). Wikipedia uses "GFDL (or any later
    version)" which is different from what OWW uses so Wikipedia
    content can't be copied to OWW but the reverse is possible. A new
    version of the GFDL will apparently be released (and by the "any
    later version" clause will apply to all of wikipedia) which will
    be compatible with CC BY-SA. This means OWW will be able to freely mix
    content with Wikipedia and this whole dual license mess may go away.
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/01/2032252
    
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Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899



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