Talk:Creative Commons
Proposed additions
editI 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)