{"id":971,"date":"2009-05-27T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=971"},"modified":"2009-07-20T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T02:19:14","slug":"wikipedia-now-incompatible-with-third-party-gfdl-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/05\/27\/wikipedia-now-incompatible-with-third-party-gfdl-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia now incompatible with third-party GFDL text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>GFDL 1.3<\/strong> allows collaborative sites to <strong>switch <\/strong>from the GFDL to CC-BY-SA 3.0 as their license, under limited circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Wikimedia has been advocating for this change for some time, and with much effort from the <strong>FSF<\/strong> and <em>Creative Commons<\/em> a solution was worked out last November: such a transition would be available only for massively collaborative projects, and only for a limited time.\u00a0 If a project opted for this transition, it could not incorporate any <strong>new GFDL material<\/strong> after the release date of the new license (<em>November 3, 2008<\/em>); and it had to decide by <em>August 1, 2009<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Given the first date, one would assume a site would want to move as quickly as possible to decide, to avoid a prolonged period when no outside material under most any free license could be incorporated.\u00a0 Nevertheless, it took us over 6 months to decide to make the transition.\u00a0 Now we are faced with two hurdles: ensuring that no GFDL material has been migrated into a Wikimedia project since November, and far more complex, communicating with the hundreds of <strong>smaller <\/strong>GFDL wikis who chose their license for compatibility with Wikipedia, to ensure they know about this change and what it means for them.\u00a0 They only have <strong>until the first of August<\/strong> to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve started compiling a list of GFDL wikis and other collaborative sites that have not yet indicated any awareness about the license switch or considered switching themselves.\u00a0 This includes at least half of the 20 largest GFDL wikis other than Wikipedia, both major medical wikis (<strong>Medpedia<\/strong> and <strong>WikiDoc<\/strong>), <strong>PlanetMath<\/strong>, and the old Spanish Wikipedia fork.\u00a0 Please help contact these sites and update their status on this project page: [[<a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Licensing_update\/Outreach\">m:<strong>Licensing update\/Outreach<\/strong><\/a>]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GFDL 1.3 allows collaborative sites to switch from the GFDL to CC-BY-SA 3.0 as their license, under limited circumstances. 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