Proposal:Content re-license
- This page is a proposal being developed by our members.
This proposal is to change the website license from GFDL to the other Share-alike licence CC-BY-SA as decided in July 2009 (Resolution:Updating official-wiki license), and add a provision for all content to be relicensed again when required.
Background
The GFDL was the licence used on most Wiki installations. It was probably the default at the time we set up the website.
At the bottom of every page of the website is:
- Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.
Since then most/all Wikimedia Foundation projects have migrated to CC licences by way of the GFDL licence upgrade loophole explicitly added by the Free Software Foundation in order to help WMF projects migrate away from the GFDL.
That loophole has expired. In order to change licence, we need each participant to relicence their contributions.
If we are going to switch licence, we should do it now while the number of participants on the wiki is quite small and they are all known to the committee. Some are no longer financial members.
Policy
All content in content namespaces on websites controlled by the Wikimedia Australia, Inc. must be either public domain in Australia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, or explicitly approved by the committee and its copyright status clearly recorded on each page where it appears.
Any media on Wikimedia Commons may be used via mw:InstantCommons, except where it is still covered by copyright in Australia or other Australia laws restrict publication.
Existing content
The committee will ask all existing participants on the official wiki to agree to relicense their contributions from GFDL to CC-BY-SA.
Process for any remaining GFDL content
Content which can not be relicensed, with the permission of everyone involved, will be either
- tagged with
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This content is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See Proposal:Content re-license for more information. |
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by approval of the committee, or
- deleted.
Future relicensing
In order to prepare any future relicensing needs, all accounts will be required to grant Wikimedia Australia, Inc. with the right to relicense their content to another license which meets the Freedomdefined.org criteria or its successor or nearest equivalent (such as the debian definition of 'free').
Implementation
The website terms and conditions will require new accounts to state that they agree for the organisation to relicense their content.
All references to the GFDL will be changed to CC-BY-SA.