Difference between revisions of "Project:Copyrights"
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The user-contributed software (for instance the user scripts and the gadgets in the MediaWiki namespace) are by default contributed under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License CC-BY-SA]. This is due to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scripts#License Wikidata having that same license for its software] and the expectation that contributors will cut and paste freely from Wikipedia and Wikidata. | The user-contributed software (for instance the user scripts and the gadgets in the MediaWiki namespace) are by default contributed under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License CC-BY-SA]. This is due to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scripts#License Wikidata having that same license for its software] and the expectation that contributors will cut and paste freely from Wikipedia and Wikidata. | ||
| − | Wikipedia and Wikidata encourage contributors to double license under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License GPL], and we do the same here. | + | Wikipedia and Wikidata encourage contributors to double license original contribution under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License GPL], and we do the same here, on a per file basis. |
Revision as of 15:44, 13 May 2019
The database itself is contributed under CC0, with an intention of possibly switching to OdbL later.
The user-contributed software (for instance the user scripts and the gadgets in the MediaWiki namespace) are by default contributed under CC-BY-SA. This is due to Wikidata having that same license for its software and the expectation that contributors will cut and paste freely from Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Wikipedia and Wikidata encourage contributors to double license original contribution under the GPL, and we do the same here, on a per file basis.