Policy talk:Terms of Use
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Niklitov in topic Reasons for the 2018 Terms of Use
- To discuss these Terms of Use and possible changes, please see this Talk page on Meta Wiki.
- For a short summation of differences between the previous Terms of Use and the new policy that came into effect on May 25, 2012, please see New Terms of use.
- For discussion about the paid contributions amendment of 2014, see here.
Reasons for the 2018 Terms of Use
Hello, dear collegues! Can the Foundation adopted a new Terms of Use (Attn: The Foundation's General Counsel)?:
- Current version:
7. Licensing of Content Text to which you hold the copyright: When you submit text to which you hold the copyright, you agree to license it under:
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (“CC BY-SA”)...
- New draft (since 2018?):
7. Licensing of Content Text to which you hold the copyright: When you submit text to which you hold the copyright, you agree to license it under:
CC-BY-SA-3.0 is oldest (since 2012) license for text. «When/if the plan to update our license to 4.0 happens, then it will be fine» (User:Crow). Russian OTRS team working with CC-BY-SA-4.0 for text since 2014 year. Innovative news sites working too on CC-BY-SA 4.0 int, ex: https://klops.ru/ , etc. I will be glad to your new WMF document (Terms of Use). Best Regards, — Niklitov (talk) 15:10, 14 October 2018 (UTC)