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The headline mentions "new Creative Commons licensing", but I'm not seeing any explanation of that that new licensing is, or how it will affect me? Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 10:24, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
- See https://creativecommons.org/version4 for an overview of what's new in Version 4.0.
- Note however that the sui-generis database rights mentioned on that page don't apply to Wikimedia projects. The new Terms of Use include a specific waiver:
Where you own Sui Generis Database Rights covered by CC BY-SA 4.0, you waive these rights. As an example, this means facts you contribute to the projects may be reused freely without attribution.
Andreas JN466 12:46, 19 June 2023 (UTC)- You may also see the legal note by WMF Legal Team and the detailed comparison published by Creative Commons. Thanks. SCP-2000 14:29, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
- TL;DR. I still have no idea what this is all about; it's just all mind-numbing legal mumbo-jumbo. My understanding: 3.0: you have no rights. 4.0: you still have no rights. In other words, nothing changed and this is just an exercise allowing lawyers to collect more legal fees. I know that I just edit at the pleasure of the Wikimedia Foundation, and they have all the rights, including the right to ban me at any time, for any reason, without explanation. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:20, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
I want to inform you that there are (in Slovak) the reports of violations of CC SA-3.0 and violations of the GFDL and reported on legal@wikimedia.org. --Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 10:54, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Terms of use—I clicked on BrEng and found "Practice" as a verb. Really? They need copyediting. Tony (talk) 13:17, 28 June 2023 (UTC)