A caveat: if the images uploaded include any of the Wikipedia
trademarks (such as the puzzle globe) they've got a different copyright.
On 1/3/12 3:32 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:49 PM, K. Peachey<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure we can't assume anything with licensing, The uploader
>> must state the license they want it to be under.
>>
> If something is uploaded by a WMF employee or contractor and was
> produced in the course of their work for WMF, you can probably safely
> assume it's CC-BY-SA 3.0+, because it's down in our contracts (or at
> least mine) that "publicly shared content will be licensed under an
> applicable free content license, typically CC-BY-SA 3.0 or later".
> Also, some people (like Tim Starling) have a user page with a blanket
> statement that anything they publish with no explicit licensing
> information is licensed under XYZ.
>
> But it probably doesn't hurt to ask people. As for me, everything I
> may have uploaded to mw.org without licensing information is hereby
> licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0+ .
>
> Roan
>
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