Last modified: 2008-12-13 21:36:50 UTC
bug #15125 introduced the public domain licence to the installer, but the URL points to Wikipedia. If we want an external URL then the URL should probably be the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration, rather than to Wikipedia, because the Wikipedia link can be vandalised at any time (in fact I expect increased vandalism on that page simply as a result of MediaWiki wikis going live under the public domain and all of them linking to that Wikipedia page's live revision, driving lots of newbies there). And what if someone goes to the Wikipedia page and writes "public domain means it is super-copyrighted" and people from another wiki click on the link to be informed about their rights over a pd-licensed wiki and see that? But I see no reason to prefer an external URL over a local URL: I propose to make the URL go to a local wiki's page which will be populated by the MediaWiki installer to carry a public domain declaration, similar to the one at Creative Commons. This bug could be resolved by either pointing the URL to Creative Commons or by including a local URL.
Created attachment 5515 [details] Replace Wikipedia link with Creative Commons link This patch replaces the Wikipedia public domain link to the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication page. It does not link to any specific CC PD language, but relies on the CC website to show a default language, which currently is en_US. No other metadata markings are used, and no Creative Commons Public Domain icon is used, only the URL is used.
Done in r44544, r44545.
