On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> wrote:

> I notice that when I go to save, the site currently tells me "By
> clicking the "Save page" button, you ... agree to release your
> contribution under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL." I don't
> mind my contributions being licensed under more-or-less any open
> license, and I know WMF generally uses CC+GFDL for historical reasons,
> but I suspect that there might be problems using it here.

Good catch. I think the dual-licensing requirement should probably be
removed for Wikivoyage wikis. I'll raise it with legal.

It can't hurt to run it past the legal experts, but I don't see a real problem here. You're only being asked to dual-license your contribution, not the page as a whole.

I think there would only be a problem if we claimed that entire Wikivoyage pages were dual-licensed (if they contain anything imported from Wikitravel). Hopefully we don't do that.

Requiring dual-licensing on Wikivoyage does have the advantage that fresh contributions to Wikivoyage can then be copied directly into Wikipedia and other wikis that require the same dual license.

Avenue