Dušan, please see https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/4.0_upgrade_guidelines
Upgrading from prior versions to 4.0
- New content:
** Who will own the rights? *** If the publisher, then can simply apply 4.0 as specified above. *** If the contributors, then need need to require they license under 4.0 via terms of use or other agreement.
*Existing content:
** Who owns the rights?
*** If the publisher, then can relicense under 4.0 as specified above. *** If the contributors, then need permission to relicense. Without permission (via terms of use or otherwise), then that content remains under prior version.
The Terms of Use now require contributors to assent to the relicensing, as I understand the situation.
Perhaps the lawyers can explain whether and how that is copacetic for contributions prior to the ToU changes, by those who have left or died?
-LW
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 5:56 AM Dušan Kreheľ dusankrehel@gmail.com wrote:
I would like inform about the report a violation of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license in projects[1] of the WMF Foundation[2]. This state was created by the process of changing the license from CC BY-SA 3.0 to CC BY-SA 4.0. The violation report is available at: https://krehel.sk/Porusovanie_CC_BY-SA_3.0/
Dušan Kreheľ
P.S.: The report was reported to legal@wikimedia.org.
2023-06-08 22:51 GMT+02:00, Jacob Rogers jrogers@wikimedia.org:
Hi everyone,
This announcement is to confirm that the Wikimedia Terms of Use[1] have been updated effective June 7. This follows the end of the spring consultation[2] held between February and April, and approvals recorded by the Executive Director and General Counsel[3] per the delegation of policy-making authority from the Foundation Board of Trustees.[4]
As part of this update, we are also happy to announce that the project license has been upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0[5]! Technical work has already started on this change.
I’d like to extend one last thank you to everyone who participated in the conversation to help us complete this update to serve the community and the projects going forward!
Best,
Jacob
and https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policy_talk:Terms_of_Use&...
[4] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Delegation_of_policy-making...
[5] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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