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Latest comment: 1 year ago by Dave Braunschweig in topic Remove GFDL opinions or not?
* GFDL|GFDL
* You are the author
** self-GFDL-Cc-by-sa-2.5|Multi-licensed under GFDL and Cc-by-sa-2.5 (recommended)
** GFDL-self|GFDL by you
* Creative Commons Licenses
** CC-BY-2.5|Attribution (CC-BY-2.5)
** CC-BY-SA-2.5|Attribution, share-alike (CC-BY-SA-2.5)
* Other
** Unknown license|Unknown license

First draft of licenses lists for upload. guillom 22:29, 23 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Remove GFDL opinions or not?

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Like what @MGA73: did elsewhere (cf. m:User:MGA73/Media per wiki), I guess these opinion entries:

  • self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0|GFDL and CC Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 and earlier
  • self|GFDL|cc-by-4.0|GFDL and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

can go out from this page. GFDL is an old-sunshine license that are more and more problematic for re-users, it requires a full copy of license text body for each re-using. Since Commons, English and Japanese Wikipedias are decided to highly restricted their use of GFDL(-only) tags (generally, unless a new file is related to GFDL-licensed documentation(s) of software and/or its screenshots/logos, GFDL is no longer an opinion for new files), and many other Wikipedias and Wikiversities are even fully stopped further use of GFDL tags, I wonder why can't en.wikiversity be one too?!

Pinging past editors of this: @MediaWiki default, Sebmol, Darklama, Dave Braunschweig, and Mu301: (but eh, we don't have Interface Administrators?! MediaWiki namespace pages are nowadays only edit-able by them) Liuxinyu970226 (discusscontribs) 10:25, 27 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Liuxinyu970226 From a security perspective, this community has agreed to add interface administrators on demand, and only for a short period of time to address the specific issue. It doesn't come up often enough to keep the permission on for an extended period of time.
Can you help me follow what you want to do here? Can you link to an edit where either en.wikipedia or commons discussed and/or removed GFDL licensing options? I'd prefer not to have to research it myself if you already have the documentation. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discusscontribs) 00:27, 28 April 2023 (UTC)Reply