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
>
> >
>

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