Congratulations to all of you. Looks like Wikieducator made a good decision with cc-by-sa
Warm Regards Chris Harvey On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've been meaning to post a word of congratulations to the WikiMedia > Foundation on our list, who recently announced exiting changes to their > licensing policy. > > Following a positive community vote, the WikiMedia Foundation have passed a > resolution to relicense the content of their community projects including > Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity etc under a Creative Commons Sharealike > License (CC-BY-SA). This is a great opportunity to widen collaboration > within the freedom culture in sharing and reusing content. > > Once the new licensing is implemented -- this now makes it legally possible > to develop derivative works from WikiMedia Foundation projects in support of > the development of OER for different teaching contexts. Similarly, content > developed by our community can potentially add value to WikiMedia Foundation > projects. This is a significant step in helping achieve the vision of free > content resources in support of all national curricula in the world. > Through collaboration we can achieve so much more than working alone. > > A great day for the the freedom culture. You can read the full press release > here: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Dual_license_vote_May_2009 > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
