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Wikipedia voting on license change
Back in November, the Free Software Foundation released version 1.3 of the GNU Free
Documentation License; this version contained a special escape clause
allowing sites like Wikipedia to shift to the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA
license. Some months later, the Wikimedia Foundation is voting
on whether to make this change. Anybody with at least 25 edits is able
to vote; the vote closes on May 3. "The Board has evaluated
possible licensing options for Wikimedia material, and believes that this
proposal is the best available path towards achieving our collective goal
to collect, develop and disseminate educational material, and make it
available to people everywhere, free of charge, in perpetuity."
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Wikipedia voting on license change Posted Apr 14, 2009 15:14 UTC (Tue) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]
So say we all:)
Wikipedia voting on license change Posted Apr 14, 2009 15:36 UTC (Tue) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]
So say we all!
Wikipedia voting on license change Posted Apr 15, 2009 2:48 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Where do you actually vote? I've read 6 pages on the voting process but found no links to the actual voting.
Wikipedia voting on license change Posted Apr 15, 2009 2:51 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Oh awesome, no links actually appear unless you have javascript on. Win!
Wikipedia voting on license change Posted Apr 16, 2009 9:50 UTC (Thu) by tbleher (guest, #48307) [Link] Site notices on Wikipedia are done using JavaScript so they are not picked up by search engines and do not have to go through their caching layer.The direct link to the voting page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/1 (for editors of the English Wikipedia, others should change the URL appropriately)
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