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This is where we will talk about rights and licensing. Obviously, ''this'' is just a test. [[User:Mamandel|Mamandel]] 20:46, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
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This page lists various types of licensing rights, agreements, and restrictions applying to various resources listed on this wiki.  
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DO NOT ASSUME that anything on this page applies to any particular resource. We are attempting to tag every resource on the wiki with the relevant type of license and ''link it to the appropriate section'' here.
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== CC-BY-SA ==
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*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported]
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**''(see [[#Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia projects]], below)''
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== GFDL ==
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* [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License]
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**''(see [[#Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia projects]], below)''
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== GPL ==
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* [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU General Public License]
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== LGPL ==
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* [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
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== Wikimedia projects ==
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([[User:Mamandel|Mamandel]] 20:03, 20 April 2010 (UTC))
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Wikimedia says that all text* contributed to [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia:About Wikimedia Foundation] projects, including '''Wikipedia''' and '''Wiktionary''', is subject to their [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use Terms of Use]. Although this Language Resource Wiki uses Wikimedia software, it is ''not'' a Wikimedia Foundation project; so you, the user of this wiki, are a "re-user" of any Wikimedia project listed in these pages.
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The Wikimedia Terms of Use
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* require their ''contributors'' to agree to both the [[#CC-BY-SA|Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 (Unported)]] and the [[#GFDL|GNU Free Documentation License]],
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* give their ''re-users'' (you) the choice of which of those licenses to comply with:<br> ([http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use quote]): "Re-users can choose the license(s) they wish to comply with. Please note that these licenses do allow commercial uses of [contributors'] contributions, as long as such uses are compliant with the terms."
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> This does not apply to [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#Information_for_non-text_media_contributors non-text material].
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Latest revision as of 07:12, 14 May 2010

(Mamandel 19:13, 22 April 2010 (UTC))

This page lists various types of licensing rights, agreements, and restrictions applying to various resources listed on this wiki.

DO NOT ASSUME that anything on this page applies to any particular resource. We are attempting to tag every resource on the wiki with the relevant type of license and link it to the appropriate section here.


Contents


CC-BY-SA

GFDL

GPL

LGPL


Wikimedia projects

(Mamandel 20:03, 20 April 2010 (UTC))

Wikimedia says that all text* contributed to Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikipedia and Wiktionary, is subject to their Terms of Use. Although this Language Resource Wiki uses Wikimedia software, it is not a Wikimedia Foundation project; so you, the user of this wiki, are a "re-user" of any Wikimedia project listed in these pages.

The Wikimedia Terms of Use

* This does not apply to non-text material.

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