維基媒體基金會通過加入共享創意條款授權
For Release: May 22, 2009
HONG KONG – Yesterday, Board of Trustees of the Foundation passed a resolution to include Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) as the primary content licence while keeping GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL). This resolution follows a vote among the international Wikimedia community, where 88% of all voters who expressed an opinion supported the change.
This resolution aims to make all Wikimedia project content more interoperable with existing CC-BY-SA content and easier to re-use. When Wikipedia was founded in 2001, the project founder, Jimmy Wales, only had a limited choice in selection of licences that supported the ideal of free sharing. Creative Commons licenses were not yet created and thus he chose GFDL, which was very much catered for printed software manuals. Creative Commons now is widely used in online content sharing and thus a suitable licence for the content of Wikimedia projects.
The above resolution is the achievement of the collaboration between three parties: Wikimedia Foundation, Free Software Foundation and Creative Commons. Hopefully, making all Wikimedia project content compatible with both licences will encourage participation and re-use. The Wikimedia Foundation planned to implement the change in licences next month.
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Wikimedia Foundation announces important licensing change for Wikipedia and its sister projects
Wikimedia Foundation board approves license migration
昨日維基媒體基金會通過提案,維基媒體內容將加入共享創意署名-相同方式分享(CC-BY-SA)條款授權,而同時保持GNU自由文檔 (GFDL)條款授權。有88%維基媒體社群成員在投票中表達了他們的意向,支持此提案。
這個提案能使所有維基媒體內容變得更容易被重用,也可以跟現時以CC-BY-SA條款釋出的內容兼容。當維基百科在2001成立時,可以選擇的授權 條款有限,而共享創意的條款仍未草議完成,所以維基百科創辦人吉米·威爾士就選擇了GFDL條款。此條款本為印刷文檔的授權而制定,在網上重用內容時會比較麻煩。共享創意條款由2002年公佈至今已經被廣泛使用,成為網上分享內容時的常用授權方法。
經過維基媒體、自由軟件基金會和共享創意三方面的共同努力,令上述的提案得以通過,讓維基媒體內容跟兩種條款也兼容,進一步鼓勵重用和參與。維基媒體將在六月執行提案。
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Wikimedia Foundation announces important licensing change for Wikipedia and its sister projects
Wikimedia Foundation board approves license migration
2009年5月22日