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Latest comment: 1 year ago by SCP-2000 in topic Reason of didn't update to CC 4.0
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Reason of didn't update to CC 4.0
Just a note, 2021/10/20 Conversation with Trustees answered why WMF didn't update to CC 4.0.
Jimmy: 4.0 license is an improvement, it’s where the world is going. In 2016, we ran a consultation to get community feedback on adopting Creative Commons 4.0 (CC 4.0) as the default license for text contributions. We believe that CC 4.0 would be a better license for Wikipedia and Wikipedia re-users, due to the license's improvements in readability and internationalization.
- CC 4.0 introduces some new terms (such as database rights), which would require an amendment to the Wikimedia Foundation terms of use.
- We received positive feedback from the community about the upgrade, and began discussions with Creative Commons about the legal implications of the upgrade.
- When investigating the technical requirements to make the change after the 2016 consultation, we found that it would be more costly than originally anticipated. The upgrade was put on pause pending our ability to dedicate the technical resources it would require across all of Wikimedia's interfaces and form factors (desktop, mobile, etc). We are continuing to investigate making an update to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 for text on Wikimedia projects. Part of that will require updating the page footer and other interfaces to reflect the proper license text for content, including displaying the proper license for past versions of text. This will likely require making coordinated changes to multiple parts of the software, and possibly paying down some technical debt around how the page footer works, so it will require additional evaluation before we can commit to a specific upgrade date.