[African Wikimedians] Fw: [Wikimedia Announcements] Discussing Creative Commons 4.0

Forwarding. Best, Isaac Hello all, Today we opened a discussion asking for community input <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0> on a proposed change to the Wikimedia Terms of Use to upgrade to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>. The new license is easier to read and more internationally friendly, so we hope it will ensure that people can easily and freely share or remix Wikimedia content. The amendment to our Terms of Use is currently available in German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and we welcome further translations and discussion in any language. For your review, you may find the proposed amendment and background information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/ Creative_Commons_4.0/Legal_note Please join the discussion on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0 Thank you for sharing your thoughts and comments. Best, Stephen -- Stephen LaPorte Senior Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -----Original Message----- From: Stephen LaPorte &lt;slaporte(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Sender: "WikimediaAnnounce-l" &lt;wikimediaannounce-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;Datet;Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 13:12:27 To: &lt;wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Reply-To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Discussing Creative Commons 4.0 _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l