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01-22-2009, 11:21 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,381 Rep:	LXer: Wikimedia drafts licensing change Published at LXer: The Wikimedia Foundation have published a draft plan for the process of switching from the GNU Free Documentaion Licence (GFDL) over to the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Licence (CC-BY-SA) for Wikipedia. The change in licensing was made possible by the publication of the GFDL 1.3, which was itself prompted by an initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation. Read More...

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