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148:, etc.) that expand upon and explain Knowledge (XXG)'s licensing. The local community bears the primary responsibility for updating such pages and seeing that they correctly reflect the changed situation. The licensing update committee can assist, but there are simply too many such pages across all the various projects for the committee or the Foundation to work on them directly. 37: 98:
Specifically with regard to text, since this update, only dual-licensed content or CC BY-SA-compatible content can be added to the projects, any GFDL-only submissions will no longer be accepted. In other words, CC BY-SA is the primary Wikimedia license for text, and GFDL is retained as a secondary
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With the transition, the Knowledge (XXG) community will now be allowed to import CC BY-SA text from external sources into articles. If you do this, the origin of the material and its license should be explicitly noted in the edit summary. If the source text is dual- or multi-licensed, it is only
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All media licenses existing before the transition remain valid and acceptable to the Foundation. However, the community may choose to modify or restrict the licenses it encourages people to use. For example, emphasizing CC licenses in the upload form and de-emphasizing GFDL licenses.
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be pushing updates to the primary interface messages contained on the edit page, site footer, and other primary pages. In addition, they are providing a new "Terms of use" page that will supplant the top portions of
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Over time these images will be sorted based on whether they meet the criteria outlined above and a definitive CC BY-SA 3.0 tag will be added as appropriate. This is expected to be done by both ordinary users and where possible by bots.
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Allowing CC BY-SA text comes at a price however. Wikipedians may no longer import text from GFDL-only sources. Any text copied from a non-Wikimedia GFDL-only resource and added to Knowledge (XXG) on or after
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As per the Board resolution, this licensing change began to be implemented on all projects on June 15, 2009. (Any content not updated by this date could still be updated on any date prior to August 1, 2009.)
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system. This will initially state that the image may be used under CC BY-SA if it meets the above criteria, but determining that is initially left to the potential reuser.
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necessary that at least one of the licenses is compatible with CC BY-SA. It is not necessary that external content be dual licensed under the GFDL.
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Any GFDL media file that meets the eligibility criteria described below may have an additional CC BY-SA 3.0 license added to it.
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To facilitate image migration, every GFDL tagged image will have a transitional announcement added to it courtesy of the
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1.2 with the possibility of upgrading to a later version was made available additionally under the
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a project will also be started to update the tagging of all media files eligible for relicensing.
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This page is no longer relevant. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the
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To be eligible for relicensing, a file must meet the following conditions (set out in
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may be useful in identifying GFDL source texts in actual use on Knowledge (XXG).
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Must have been uploaded to Knowledge (XXG) or to some other Wikimedia project
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Over the years, the community has constructed a variety of pages (e.g.
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allowing permission for use of its content under the CC BY-SA license
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Category:Knowledge (XXG) pages affected by the licensing transition
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be marked as having any "cover texts" or "invariant sections".
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
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This page is currently inactive and is retained for
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Knowledge (XXG):LU

historical
village pump
Shortcut
WP:LU
licensing update vote result
Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution
GNU Free Documentation License
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Knowledge (XXG):Copyrights
licensing update committee
Knowledge (XXG):Copyrights
Knowledge (XXG):Forks and mirrors
Knowledge (XXG):Reusing Knowledge (XXG) content
License migration warning
Category:Knowledge (XXG) pages affected by the licensing transition
allowing permission for use of its content under the CC BY-SA license
Category:Attribution templates
GFDL 1.3, section 11
Knowledge (XXG):Image license migration
license migration
Categories
Inactive project pages
Knowledge (XXG) license migration

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