
Licensing Sanity - Credit: Brianna Laugher (CC BY)
Wikipedia is voting to switch to CC BY-SA from the GFDL.
To qualify to vote, one must have made 25 edits to a Wikimedia site prior to March 15. Make sure you’re logged in to the project on which you qualify, and you should see a site notice at the top of each page that looks like the image below (red outline added around notice).
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Click on “vote now” and you’ll be taken to the voting site.
For background on the migration process, see Wikimedia’s licensing update article and the following series of posts on the Creative Commons blog:
- On being a creative commoner
- Wikipedia and attribution
- Wikipedia licensing Q&A posted
- Wikipedia/CC news: FSF releases FDL 1.3
- Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses released
- DRAFT Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses
- Approved for Free Cultural Works
- Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps
- Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia
Do it. CC BY-SA FTW.

April 14th, 2009 at 22:04
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April 26th, 2009 at 19:32
Why? Whats wrong with GFDL?