Using this template in lists (i.e. using* {{self|cc-by-3.0}}) is discouraged. Doing so will lead tolint errors.
This template accepts licenses as unnamed parameters, which should be the names of image license templates, and displays them as options to choose between in a multi-license. If the image was not uploaded by its author, you can change "I" at the start of the template to another name by setting theauthor= parameter.
The optionalmigration= parameter corresponds to keywords in the{{License migration}} template series and is used to track thelicense update process for GFDL images.
Here are 4 examples of multi-license templates along with links to their component parts:
Here below is what the first example template produces when saved in an image page.
{{Self|CC BY-SA 3.0| GFDL}}
produces:
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
This work is licensed under theCreative CommonsAttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0truetrue
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of theGNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.