User:Ianweller/Creative Commons press release

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Fedora Project relicenses content to CC-BY-SA

Raleigh, NC, USA - September 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 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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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.