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Mobile and desktop views can show different copyright notices
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If the desktop and mobile versions of a page show different copyright statuses, which one governs?

Specific case:
https://checkuser.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - "Content is copyrighted (© all rights reserved) by the Wikimedia Foundation"
https://checkuser.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile - "Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted."

Under what license is the text on the main page of checkuser wiki licensed? Is it legally permissible to change the mobile notice to reflect the copyright shown on the desktop version, given that the CC BY-SA 3.0 license cannot be revoked?

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DannyS712 created this task.Dec 9 2020, 6:31 PM
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As the WMF-Legal project tag was added to this task, some general information to avoid wrong expectations:
Please note that public tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator are in general not a place where to expect feedback from the Legal Team of the Wikimedia Foundation due to the scope of the team and/or nature of legal topics. See the project tag description.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal for when and how to contact the Legal Team. Thanks!

DannyS712 moved this task from Unsorted to Reports on the User-DannyS712 board.Dec 9 2020, 6:32 PM
Ammarpad added a project: WikimediaMessages.Dec 10 2020, 11:34 AM
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WikimediaMessages needs to listen to MobileLicenseLinkHook and modify the footer as it does for the desktop

Peachey88 subscribed.Dec 12 2020, 1:36 AM
matmarex subscribed.Sep 30 2021, 8:31 PM

WikimediaMessages probably already does everything correctly.

I suspect the problem is that the license of checkuserwiki is misconfigured to be CC BY-SA 3.0, and someone added a local override for https://checkuser.wikimedia.org/wiki/mediawiki:wikimedia-copyright but not for https://checkuser.wikimedia.org/wiki/mediawiki:mobile-frontend-copyright.

This can probably be merged into T55140.

Multichill closed this task as a duplicate of T55140: Private WMF wikis with CC licenses.Jun 1 2023, 4:26 PM
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