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Currently licensing is a house of cards. * In commons, images can have different licenses * Sites can configure licenses * WikimediaMessages can update licenses * Editors can override licenses in messages * Pages can have multiple licenses (e.g. Wikidata) * MobileFrontend shows different license text to desktop Speaking @slaporte we are interested in being able to: * license newly edited content with cc by sa 4 while maintaining the same license for older content. * license urls would be specific to the current language With the current ecosystem being able to do this is pretty complicated. We would need to * Show cc 3 license for all content edited before date A (including cached HTML) * Show new license for all content edited after date B We'd like to make requests like this from legal much more straightforward. One way we could achieve this is via a page prop `content-license` which is an integer which represents a license stored in a constant somewhere. Any thoughts welcomed. I've added a handful of people that I feel may have good views in this area, but please do broaden the audience!

Currently licensing is a house of cards. * In commons, images can have different licenses * Sites can configure licenses * WikimediaMessages can update licenses * Editors can override licenses in messages * Pages can have multiple licenses (e.g. Wikidata) * MobileFrontend shows different license text to desktop Speaking @slaporte we are interested in being able to: * license newly edited content with cc by sa 4 while maintaining the same license for older content. * license urls would be specific to the current language With the current ecosystem being able to do this is pretty complicated. We would need to * Show cc 3 license for all content edited before date A (including cached HTML) * Show new license for all content edited after date B * Old revisions would show the old license We'd like to make requests like this from legal much more straightforward. One way we could achieve this is via a page prop `content-license` which is an integer which represents a license stored in a constant somewhere. Any thoughts welcomed. I've added a handful of people that I feel may have good views in this area, but please do broaden the audience!

Currently licensing is a house of cards. * In commons, images can have different licenses * Sites can configure licenses * WikimediaMessages can update licenses * Editors can override licenses in messages * Pages can have multiple licenses (e.g. Wikidata) * MobileFrontend shows different license text to desktop Speaking @slaporte we are interested in being able to: * license newly edited content with cc by sa 4 while maintaining the same license for older content. * license urls would be specific to the current language With the current ecosystem being able to do this is pretty complicated. We would need to * Show cc 3 license for all content edited before date A (including cached HTML) * Show new license for all content edited after date B * Old revisions would show the old license We'd like to make requests like this from legal much more straightforward. One way we could achieve this is via a page prop `content-license` which is an integer which represents a license stored in a constant somewhere. Any thoughts welcomed. I've added a handful of people that I feel may have good views in this area, but please do broaden the audience!