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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Raleigh, NC, USA - October XX, 2009 - The Fedora Project, a global community
leading the advancement of free, open software and content, today finalized the
conversion of the licensing of its documentation and wiki to a Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, also known as CC-BY-SA. This
content was formerly licensed under the Open Publication License.


Fedora Project relicenses content to CC-BY-SA
Every six months, the Fedora Project produces a new release of its Linux
distribution, as well as a large amount of supporting documentation and
content. Moving to CC-BY-SA allows for wider reach of this material as more
people understand that they can share and remix it in the same ways they can
share and remix the software included in Fedora.


Raleigh, NC, USA - September XX, 2009 - The Fedora Project, a global community leading
"Migrating to the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License will
the advancement of free, open software and content, today finalized the conversion of the
increase interoperability between projects, so we can share our work more
licensing of its documentation and wiki to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
easily," said Ian Weller, who oversees wiki administration for the Fedora
3.0 Unported License, also known as CC-BY-SA. This content was formerly licensed under
Project. "Based on our mission to free and spread our content, it just makes
the Open Publication License.
sense."


Every six months, the Fedora Project produces a new release of its Linux distribution, as
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system built by a global community that
well as a large amount of supporting documentation and content. Moving to CC-BY-SA allows
showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free
for wider reach of this material as more people understand that they can share and remix it
for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. The Fedora Project is open and
in the same ways they can share and remix the software included in Fedora.
anyone is welcome to join. For more information on Fedora, to download the
 
distribution or to join this community effort, please visit:
"Migrating to the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License will increase interoperability between projects,
  http://fedoraproject.org/
so we can share our work more easily," said Ian Weller, who oversees wiki content for the
Fedora Project. "Based on our mission to free and spread our content, it just makes sense."
 
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system built by a global community that showcases the  
latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify,  
and distribute. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join. For more information
on Fedora, to download the distribution or to join this community effort, please visit
http://fedoraproject.org/.
 
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Revision as of 21:35, 3 October 2009

This stuff is totally a work in progress and you should help make it better. Thanks!


To send to Creative Commons and press peeps

Fix the date in this before you send it out.

Raleigh, NC, USA - October XX, 2009 - The Fedora Project, a global community
leading the advancement of free, open software and content, today finalized the
conversion of the licensing of its documentation and wiki to a Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, also known as CC-BY-SA. This
content was formerly licensed under the Open Publication License.

Every six months, the Fedora Project produces a new release of its Linux
distribution, as well as a large amount of supporting documentation and
content. Moving to CC-BY-SA allows for wider reach of this material as more
people understand that they can share and remix it in the same ways they can
share and remix the software included in Fedora.

"Migrating to the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License will
increase interoperability between projects, so we can share our work more
easily," said Ian Weller, who oversees wiki administration for the Fedora
Project. "Based on our mission to free and spread our content, it just makes
sense."

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system built by a global community that
showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free
for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. The Fedora Project is open and
anyone is welcome to join. For more information on Fedora, to download the
distribution or to join this community effort, please visit:
  http://fedoraproject.org/

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To send to fedora-announce-list

Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our
documentation and project content from the Open Publication License
(OPL) to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
(CC-BY-SA). Docs originally reached a consensus to change the license in
June 2009, and after answering questions raised by the community, the
Docs team decided to go ahead with the transition.

While OPL is a free and open documentation license, moving to a more
widely known and adopted license and the one used by the likes of
Wikipedia and GNOME Project helps us share our content more easily with
the rest of the Free software community.

Additional information can be found at:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Relicensing_OPL_to_CC_BY_SA

We'd like to thank Tom 'spot' Callaway, Fedora's legal ninja, and
Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal for their help with the conversion. We
look forward to continue working with the community and share our
documentation freely.