This is not a conversation for the -en list, this is a conversation
for the lawyers and/or wikimedia-l. Individual projects should not be
messing with licensing, wherever possible; it creates a highly
confusing and contradictory environment.

On 17 August 2015 at 11:04, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently our default license for EN wiki is CC BY-SA 3.0, but isn't this a
> bit odd for IP editors and vanished users? Wouldn't it make more sense if
> IP editors were licensing their edits as CC SA, and vanishing users as part
> of vanishing were relicensing their edits as CC-SA?
>
> In one case the only attribution we can make is to an IP address, in the
> other the editor doesn't want to be attributed.
>
> Changing the default license would then give a more transparent reason for
> registering an address. If you would like your edits to be attributed
> directly to yourself or indirectly via a nom de plume, then create an
> account and your logged in edits will be licensed *CC BY-SA 3.0.*
>
> Regards
>
> WSC
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