The relicensing applies to the Wikimedia logos, which refers to all the logos of the Wikimedia wikis: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_trademarks. It also applies to all the derivatives that carry the {{Copyright by Wikimedia}} template on Commons. Essentially, the objective is to get rid of that last non-free license template. I'm traveling for a conference, but I will see if I can clarify the blog post on this as soon as I have better internet connection.
To address Allan's question, this does not affect the trademark status of the logos as governed by the new trademark policy: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy. Best, Yana On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Yana, > > The blog post is not entirely clear as "Wikimedia logo" can have a > different meaning in different contexts. Reading the blog post, I can't > define precise what a "Wikimedia logo" is. "Wikimedia logo" can mean: > * the logo used by Wikimedia: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia-logo.svg > * this logo and all the derivatives of it (for chapters, Meta, etc) > * all logos of all the Wikimedia wikis, including the Wikipedia logo > > The blog post speaks in plural form of logos. And the blog post is > speaking about the MediaWiki and Community logos as exception, which differ > much from the Wikimedia logo, I suspect that the blog post tries to say > that all the logos from Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, > Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikidata, Wikispecies, Incubator, Commons, > Wikivoyage, Wikiversity, Wikimania, + all screenshots of wiki pages with > the logo of a Wikimedia-wiki on it, all the derivatives of these logos, > including the Wikimedia family logo. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete-2013.svg > > Can you confirm this, just for the sake of clarity? > > Thanks! > > Romaine > > > 2014-10-27 18:51 GMT+01:00 Yana Welinder <ywelin...@wikimedia.org>: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on >> Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/ >> >> I would really appreciate your help with replacing the {{Copyright by >> Wikimedia}} >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia>[1] >> templates on the logos with the {{Wikimedia trademark}} >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark>[2] and >> {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} < >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0>[3] >> templates. But we don't want to replace templates on the MediaWiki >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg>[4] and the >> Community >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg>[5] >> logos, which were originally released under free licenses. >> >> There are also some pages on Commons, like this one >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing>[6], that may need >> to >> be updated based on the re-licensed logos. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Yana >> >> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia >> >> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark >> >> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0 >> >> [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg >> >> [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg >> >> [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing >> >> >> -- >> Yana Welinder >> Legal Counsel >> Wikimedia Foundation >> 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 >> @yanatweets <https://twitter.com/yanatweets> >> >> NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical >> reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community >> members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more >> on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > -- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 @yanatweets <https://twitter.com/yanatweets> NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
