Congratulations and is it not great that Wikieducator showed the way?!!! Savithri
2009/5/25 Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > 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 > > > > -- Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 9786 2584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
