GamerWiki:Copyrights
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The license GamerWiki uses grants free access to our content in the same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is known as copyleft. That is to say, GamerWiki content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the GamerWiki article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement). GamerWiki articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.
To fulfill the above goals, the text contained in GamerWiki is licensed to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The full text of this license is at GamerWiki:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.
- A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
- Content on GamerWiki is covered by disclaimers.
The English text of the GFDL is the only legally binding document; what follows is our interpretation of the GFDL: the rights and obligations of users and contributors.
IMPORTANT: If you want to use content from GamerWiki, first read the Users' rights and obligations section. You should then read the GamerWiki:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License.
Users' rights and obligations
If you want to use GamerWiki materials in your own books/articles/web sites or other publications, you can do so, but you have to follow the GFDL. If you are simply duplicating the GamerWiki article, you must follow section two of the GFDL on verbatim copying, as discussed at GamerWiki:Verbatim copying.
If you create a derivative version by changing or adding content, this entails the following:
- your materials in turn have to be licensed under GFDL,
- you must acknowledge the authorship of the article (section 4B), and
- you must provide access to the "transparent copy" of the material (section 4J). (The "transparent copy" of a GamerWiki article is any of a number of formats available from us, including the wiki text, the html web pages, xml feed, etc.)
You may be able to partially fulfill the latter two obligations by providing a conspicuous direct link back to the Wikipedia article hosted on this website. You also need to provide access to a transparent copy of the new text. However, please note that GamerWiki makes no guarantee to retain authorship information and a transparent copy of articles. Therefore, you are encouraged to provide this authorship information and a transparent copy with your derived works.
Additional information from Wikipedia may be found at Wikipedia copyrights.
This article uses source material obtained from Wikipedia The original article can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
