Wow, this would be a VERY good thing.  It will keep projects from getting
too convoluted within licensing if they want to combine wikieducator stuff
with wikipedia, wikiversity, or commons (I think).

-Kathy 

-----Original Message-----
From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Steve Foerster
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:52 AM
To: WikiEducator
Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: GFDL 1.3 released


Erik wrote:

<< the Free Software Foundation has today released the version 1.3 of the
GNU Free Documentation License, the licensed used by Wikipedia.
This version of the GFDL allows GFDL-wikis to switch to CC-BY-SA - see
section 11, relicensing: >>

Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation!
Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above!


<< Wikimedia hasn't decided to switch yet, but we plan to hold a community
referendum on the issue very soon. If we do switch, I'll let you know - it
would enable two-way legal compatibility with WikiEducator and similar
educational resources. >>

I really, really hope the community referendum on this is successful.

Thanks,

-=Steve=-




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