Last month the long-awaited switch to version 4.0 of the @creativecommons license went into effect for #Wikipedia and its sister projects! :cc: :ccby: :ccsa:
Learn how this will enable the reuse of more free content in Wikipedia, simplify attribution requirements and more in a post by the #Wikimedia Foundation legal team:
@wikipedia@creativecommons Sounds great but I'm unsure how this works. Aren't old contributions still covered only by the old license? I skimmed the current ToS and don't see a license grant for future license editions. How would authors move their contributions to the new license?
@wikipedia Ah, thanks, I somehow forgot about that provision. That explains it.
(Although if I wanted to be pedantic I would point out that this only applies to the distribution of adaptions and not to the articles that haven't been changed yet. But I'll let other people loose their minds about that. 😅 )
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