Talk:Creative Commons
Proposed additions[edit source]
I thought about adding the below passages about Creative Commons.
License Versions
Licenses in versions before the version 4.0 International are less clear and not as international-friendly. Indeed, the terms and conditions of the international (Generic/Unported) licenses of the previous versions are in mind based on the law of the United States. The pre-4.0 versions contain localized ports for specific jurisdictions, like Germany. Licenses in the latest version, 4.0 International, is written
Plans to transition from CC BY-SA 3.0 to CC BY-SA 4.0
- meta:Terms of use/Creative Commons 4.0
- File:WMF Legal Team October 2017 Quarterly Check-In.pdf (page 38)
According to a footnote from w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright, "CC BY-SA 4.0 is not backwards compatible with CC BY-SA 3.0. Therefore, mixing text licenses under 3.0 and 4.0 would be problematic." However, transition from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International was proposed and then discussed, especially at meta:Talk:Terms of use/Creative Commons 4.0. No official progress to upgrade the CC BY-SA license has been made yet. As of now, the current licenses for text content at Wikimedia project are CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported and GFDL.
Suggestions would be nice if anyone has one. --George Ho (discuss • contribs) 03:12, 20 March 2018 (UTC)