That is wonderful news for outreach evangelists!

A great step indeed!
:)


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Yana Welinder <ywelin...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on
> Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/
>
> I would really appreciate your help with replacing the {{Copyright by
> Wikimedia}}
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia>[1]
> templates on the logos with the {{Wikimedia trademark}}
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark>[2] and
> {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0
> >[3]
> templates. But we don't want to replace templates on the MediaWiki
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg>[4] and the
> Community
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg>[5]
> logos, which were originally released under free licenses.
>
> There are also some pages on Commons, like this one
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing>[6], that may need
> to
> be updated based on the re-licensed logos.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yana
>
> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia
>
> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark
>
> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0
>
> [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg
>
> [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg
>
> [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
>
>
> --
> Yana Welinder
> Legal Counsel
> Wikimedia Foundation
> 415.839.6885 ext. 6867
> @yanatweets <https://twitter.com/yanatweets>
>
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