Last modified: 2012-08-21 19:49:14 UTC
Brion created an API to grab configuration info from a Commons special page called UploadCampaigns. This bug deals with the license info that is configured by each country in UploadCampaigns. Elke has mostly confirmed that we need only 1 license per country, which will be both the default and the only option. This may change if some countries push back for important reasons. In 2011, the only country with multiple license options was Spain. Some countries use a country-specific version of CC-BY-SA 3.0. The link to the license text is also required. If the license text link is not available in the configuration info, we should use the link to the standard CC-BY-SA 3.0 license text in those cases. The current wireframes show license info on screen 23. The full text that should appear on the screen will be added to this bug shortly. In addition, the title and description field should appear above the license info on this screen. A separate bug will be opened about that.
Here is the text approved by legal and 2 Common admins: ----- Please choose a license for this work. Note: do not upload other people's photos or photos of copyrighted material, such as posters, signs or covers. [ ] I took this photo. I, Philinje, the copyright holder of this work, irrevocably grant anyone the right to use this work under the following license: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license (credit me and share with the same license) ----- [ ] represents a checkbox which is un-checked by default, and "CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported" should be a link to the license text, which is here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License?useformat=mobile As noted above, countries may use a particular version of CC-BY-SA 3.0, which will come from the uploadcampaigns API. If the link is available to the text of that particular license, use that. If not, use the generic link.
Legal review: [ ] I, [user], the copyright holder of this work, irrevocable grant anyone the right to use this work under the following license: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported License ( - will be a link) Reasons: -By keeping the check box, you make it less likely that the license grant will later be challenged by the Europeans, who like affirmative assent. That being said, you can get rid of the box and say something along the lines of "By clicking the "Upload" button below, you, [user], the copyright holder of this work..." to keep it as an affirmative act. However, that seems to take up more room than the check box. -By keeping "the copyright holder of this work" instead of "I took this photo", you allow people who have the rights to a work (but didn't take the photo themselves) to also contribute without having to do a white lie. Also, it keeps you from having to have 2 sentences.
*** Bug 38869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
First step (showing the proper licence's symbolic name): https://github.com/wikimedia/WLMMobile/pull/103
First step merged.
Link added: https://github.com/wikimedia/WLMMobile/pull/105
