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Wikivoyage should not require GFDL licensing grant
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All Wikivoyage languages currently require the CC-BY-SA/GFDL dual-licensing grant. WMF legal advises that since Wikivoyage incorporates a lot of CC-BY-SA-only material, it would be cleaner to avoid the GFDL dual-licensing. This does not conflict with importing content back into Wikipedia, as importing CC-BY-SA-only content is explicitly permitted under the Terms of Use.

This version of the copyright warning has been vetted by legal:
http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning&oldid=2085117

To consistently implement it across Wikivoyage licenses while leaving other projects unaffected, we may want to add a new wikivoyage-copyrightwarning message to WikimediaMessages and ensure it only gets rendered in place of wikimedia-copyrightwarning on Wikivoyage sites.

Unless legal advises differently, I will leave this as low priority for now since the GFDL grant doesn't seem to be actively harmful (even if it is invalid in many cases).

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:18 AM
• bzimport added a project: WikimediaMessages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz44023.
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Eloquence created this task.Jan 16 2013, 5:51 AM
Andyrom75 subscribed.Mar 13 2015, 10:32 PM

I've just noticed that the copyright warning on en:voy is different from the ones in other language versions (it:voy, de:voy, fr:voy, etc...).

Do these other language versions be aligned to the one of en:voy (i.e. mentioning only CC-BY-SA without GFDL)?

Nemo_bis added a comment.Mar 14 2015, 9:46 AM
In T46023#1118264, @Andyrom75 wrote:

I've just noticed that the copyright warning on en:voy is different from the ones in other language versions (it:voy, de:voy, fr:voy, etc...).

Do these other language versions be aligned to the one of en:voy (i.e. mentioning only CC-BY-SA without GFDL)?

This is not something that can be altered locally.

Andyrom75 added a comment.Mar 14 2015, 2:54 PM

Nemo, few language versions have customized it. For example ru:voy has removed the GFDL licence from that warning.
So my doubt is: do we have to adopt the same licence (i.e. align the wording in those file), or it's fine that each version shows different licence?

Nemo_bis added a comment.Mar 20 2015, 9:01 AM

It's not fine. The local customisations have to be removed and WikimediaMessages tweaked if necessary.

Andyrom75 added a comment.Mar 20 2015, 11:58 AM

So MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning in each project should be deleted (like the one mentioned in the first post added by Philippe (WMF)? In the affirmative a steward should take care about it.

Glaisher added subscribers: Glaisher, • Philippe-WMF, WMF-Legal.Mar 21 2015, 4:18 PM

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