FilterMapReduce writes "The Wikimedia foot has resolved to migrate the copyright licensing of all of its wiki projects, including Wikipedia, from the GNU Free docket License to the original Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. The migration is routed to be completed on June 15. After the migration, reprints of substance from the wikis will no longer require a full copy of the GFDL to be attached, and the attribution rules will require only a link to the wiki page. Also, matter submitted after the migration cannot be forked with GFDL "invariant sections," which are impossible to incorporate back into a wiki in most cases. The GFDL version update that made the migration practicable and the colony vote that acquainted the decision were beforehand covered on Slashdot."

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