2009/5/21 Michael Snow <[email protected]>: > In light of the vote results announced regarding the proposed licensing > update, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has unanimously > passed the following resolution: > > Resolved that: > > Whereas the Wikimedia community, in a project-wide vote, has expressed > very strong support for changing the licensing terms of Wikimedia sites, > and whereas the Board of Trustees has previously adopted a license > update resolution requesting that such a change be made possible, the > Board hereby declares its intent to implement these changes. > Accordingly, the Wikimedia Foundation exercises its option under Version > 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License to relicense the Wikimedia > sites as Massive Multiauthor Collaborations under the Creative Commons > Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, effective June 15, 2009. The Board > of Trustees hereby instructs the Executive Director to have all > Wikimedia licensing terms updated and terms of use implemented > consistent with the proposal at > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update
Woo-hoo! :-) Once again, a big *thank you* to the licensing committee for administering the voting process. All the volunteers on the committee have been hugely helpful. I want to especially mention Robert Rohde, without whom the result probably wouldn't have been ready last week. The work of the LiCom doesn't end here - we'll now develop a strategy and checklist to update all the relevant licensing terms. There are also a couple of open questions that we should discuss a bit further before implementing the change, in particular, the best process and policies for handling externally created CC-BY-SA content to be imported into our projects. I'll post more on that very soon. This is a big day for free culture. :-) All best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
