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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