Wikivoyage:License upgrade

JAMGuides plans to upgrade its license from the present Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 ("CC 1.0") to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 ("CC 3.0"). Statements indicating consent and refusal to relicense your own content are accepted until December 1, 2009; if there is a broad consensus in favor, the license upgrade will take place on January 1, 2010.

Rationale

By upgrading from the older CC 1.0 to the latest CC 3.0, JAMGuides will...

• Be able to use text contributions from other CC 2.0+ licensed projects. This includes Wikipedia, World66, HitchWiki, Travellerspoint and many, many more.
• Simplify reuse. Currently, JAMGuides text is CC 1.0, but many images are CC 3.0, creating a licensing headache. After the upgrade, the entire site will be CC 3.0.
• Become more international. CC 1.0 is limited to American copyright law. CC 3.0 is available in jurisdiction-specific versions, giving you extra protection for reuse outside the United States.
• Have a more secure legal position. Creative Commons has worked hard on patching loopholes in the original CC 1.0, and will continue to do so in the future.
• Become future compatible. CC 1.0 does not have provisions for automatic updating (which is why this process is necessary), but CC 3.0 will automatically upgrade to the latest version.

Your Attribution and ShareAlike rights as a contributor are protected as well as or better by CC 3.0 than by CC 1.0. CC 1.0 was originally chosen only because there were no other practical options when JAMGuides was launched, and JAMGuides is now the only open content project of any size still using it. A detailed discussion of the differences is available at Creative Commons:

• Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0 licenses
• Version 3.0 Launched

So what should I do?

You have three options:

1. Consent by signing the Consent section below. This means you consent to relicense all your contributions to all JAMGuides versions under CC 3.0.
2. Refuse by signing the Refuse section below. This means that you oppose the license change, and do not consent to relicense your written work. If community consensus is to proceed with the migration, your contributions may be removed from JAMGuides.
3. Do nothing. If the community proceeds with the migration, your contributions may be either kept or deleted at the discretion of the site's other users. If you want to discuss your support or opposition to the license change, add a comment to shared:Talk:License upgrade or Discuție Wikivoyage:License upgrade. You can later return and sign under Consent or Refuse.

Consent

I, the undersigned, hereby agree to release all my past, present and future text and image contributions on all language versions of JAMGuides under Version 3.0 of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License.

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1. Tatata (Tatatabot) 2 noiembrie 2009 18:15 (EET)

Refuse

I, the undersigned, hereby state that I do not wish to relicense my JAMGuides contributions under Version 3.0 of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License, and hereby require their removal from this site.'

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