https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44023
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Bug ID: 44023
Summary: Wikivoyage should not require GFDL licensing grant
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Site requests
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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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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