That is a great news, as it was an annoyance to a lot of long time contributors and some
logo authors. I will start the replacement process.
Jarek T.
(user:jarekt)
From: commons-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]
On Behalf Of Yana Welinder
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 1:51 PM
To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Commons-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0
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 {{Copyright by
Wikimedia}}<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wik…
templates on the logos with the {{Wikimedia
trademark}}<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_tradem… and
{{cc-by-sa-3.0}}<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_Lo…
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]gt;[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
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Wikimedia Foundation
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