The Wikipedia Usability Initiative is still hiring. Wikimedia at NetSquared Y4 conference in San Jose Wikimedia community approves license migration Posted by Jay Walsh on May 21st, 2009 Today we announced some fantastic news. The proposal to see Wikimedia’s content adopt a new dual license system has been voted on and approved by the Wikimedia community.  With the full approval of our Board of Trustees, this now means that the Wikimedia Foundation will proceed with the implementation of a CC-BY-SA/GFDL dual license system on all of our project’s content. The new dual license will begin to come into effect in June. A Q&A about the announcement has been posted on the Foundation wiki.  You can also find considerably more information, discussion, and details about the license change and the work of the license update committee on their meta page. A huge thanks to the committee, to the folks at Creative Commons (who have also blogged on the topic), to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, and to thousands of Wikimedia volunteers from around the world who both authored the content and voted to help make the proposal a reality. Jay Walsh, Head of Communications Categories: Community, Free Culture, Highlights, Milestones, Our wikisTags: Creative Commons, GFDL, licensing update Watch responses to this entry (RSS feed); comments and pings are currently closed. Comments are closed.