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== License on Wiki Law School == | == License on Wiki Law School == | ||
All textual content of Wiki Law School is | All textual content of Wiki Law School is co-licensed under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License] (CC-BY-SA) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License] (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). | ||
The licenses allow anyone to re-use the content in any way they choose. This includes charging money for access to the content, distributing it wherever and however they like, and modifying it in any way. However, even if you alter GFDL content, your changes must also be released under the GFDL. Any use of GFDL content must include full credit to original authors and a notice that the material is licensed under the GFDL. | The licenses allow anyone to re-use the content in any way they choose. This includes charging money for access to the content, distributing it wherever and however they like, and modifying it in any way. However, even if you alter CC-BY-SA or GFDL content, your changes must also be released under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. Any use of CC-BY-SA or GFDL content must include full credit to original authors and a notice that the material is licensed under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. | ||
== Contributors' rights and obligations == | == Contributors' rights and obligations == | ||
If you contribute material to Wiki Law School, you thereby license it to the public under the GFDL. In order to contribute, you therefore must be in a position to grant this license, which means that either: | If you contribute material to Wiki Law School, you thereby license it to the public under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. In order to contribute, you therefore must be in a position to grant this license, which means that either: | ||
* you own the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourself, or | * you own the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourself, or | ||
* you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under GFDL, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under the GFDL. | * you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under CC-BY-SA and GFDL, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. | ||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License More information on the GFDL] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License More information on the GFDL] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License Full | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_Attribution-Sharealike_3.0_Unported_License More information on the Creative Commons License] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License Full text of the GNU Free Documentation License] | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License Full text of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License] | |||
Revision as of 00:20, January 9, 2012
License on Wiki Law School
All textual content of Wiki Law School is co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
The licenses allow anyone to re-use the content in any way they choose. This includes charging money for access to the content, distributing it wherever and however they like, and modifying it in any way. However, even if you alter CC-BY-SA or GFDL content, your changes must also be released under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. Any use of CC-BY-SA or GFDL content must include full credit to original authors and a notice that the material is licensed under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL.
Contributors' rights and obligations
If you contribute material to Wiki Law School, you thereby license it to the public under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. In order to contribute, you therefore must be in a position to grant this license, which means that either:
- you own the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourself, or
- you acquired the material from a source that allows the licensing under CC-BY-SA and GFDL, for instance because the material is in the public domain or is itself published under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL.
