Wikipedia license change

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 26 18:35:54 UTC 2009


On 05/27/2009 12:00 AM, Ben Cotton wrote:
>> The OPL has served us very well for a long time, I'm sad to see us
>> move from it, but at this point the writing is clear.  We gain a lot
>> by going with a proper CC license.
>>
> Pardon my noobness, but what is it that we gain?  I don't have any
> objections to changing per se, but I'd like to know what the argument
> is before I support it. :-)

Discussions starting at

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-April/msg00061.html

Short version: CC BY SA is a much more widely used license allowing for
more sharing of content and it is better known and understood as well.

Rahul




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