Hi Chris, CC-BY-SA was the right decision for the time --- we had the advantage of starting WE a little later than Wikipedia. We also support the CC-BY license in respect for freedom of choice under licenses which meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition.
We should also pay due respect to the Free Software Foundation who in the spirit of the free culture movement supported a change in the GFDL which made this migration possible. (Refer to the Relicensing section under the GFDL ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ) -- this is not a blanket provision and any qualifiying Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site (MMC) wishing to relicense under a CC-BY-SA license would need to do so before 1 August 2009.) Cheers Wayne 2009/5/25 Chris Harvey <[email protected]> > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
