Another goalpost is moving,,,,
Gordo
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>Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:25:47 -0700
>From: Michael Snow <[email protected]>
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Foundation-l] Licensing resolution
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>In light of the vote results announced regarding the proposed licensing
>update, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has unanimously
>passed the following resolution:
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>Resolved that:
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>Whereas the Wikimedia community, in a project-wide vote, has expressed
>very strong support for changing the licensing terms of Wikimedia sites,
>and whereas the Board of Trustees has previously adopted a license
>update resolution requesting that such a change be made possible, the
>Board hereby declares its intent to implement these changes.
>Accordingly, the Wikimedia Foundation exercises its option under Version
>1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License to relicense the Wikimedia
>sites as Massive Multiauthor Collaborations under the Creative Commons
>Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, effective June 15, 2009. The Board
>of Trustees hereby instructs the Executive Director to have all
>Wikimedia licensing terms updated and terms of use implemented
>consistent with the proposal at
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update
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>--Michael Snow
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