Free Documentation License 1.3
Free Documentation License 1.3
[Announcements] Posted Nov 3, 2008 20:09 UTC (Mon) by corbet
The Free Software Foundation has announced the release of
version 1.3 of
the GNU Free Documentation License. The big change would appear to be
a clause allowing FDL-licensed text to be relicensed to the Creative
Commons attribution-sharealike license. "This new permission has
been added at the request of the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the
Wikipedia project. The same terms are available to any public wiki that
uses materials available under the new license. The Wikimedia Foundation
will now initiate a process of community discussion and voting to determine
whether or not to use CC-BY-SA 3.0 as the license for Wikipedia.
"