Dear Wikimedians,

The below crucial e-mail from WMF Legal about re-licensing the Wikimedia logos for your information. Do spread the word among your community.

Best,
Vishnu


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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:51:47 -0700
From: Yana Welinder <ywelinder@wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hi folks,

I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on
Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/

I would really appreciate your help with replacing the undefined
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia>[1]
templates on the logos with the undefined
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark>[2] and
undefined <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0>[3]
templates. But we don't want to replace templates on the MediaWiki
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg>[4] and the Community
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg>[5]
logos, which were originally released under free licenses.

There are also some pages on Commons, like this one
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing>[6], that may need to
be updated based on the re-licensed logos.

Thanks,

Yana

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg

[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg

[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing


-- 
Yana Welinder
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
415.839.6885 ext. 6867
@yanatweets <https://twitter.com/yanatweets>

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