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The text of all Wikicities sites is freely licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Reusers of the content must retain it under the same licence, ensuring it remains free.
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- A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
- Content on Wikicities is covered by disclaimers and the Wikicities terms of use.
GNU Free Documentation License
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The GFDL is a copyleft license, meaning the 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 Wikicities page. Wikicities content will, therefore, will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.
Wikipedia, one of the web's most popular reference works uses the GFDL. Using the same license as that site makes it easy for Wikicities users to reuse the content from Wikipedia. You must adhere to the GFDL when using Wikipedia content. An easy way to link back to Wikipedia is to use the shared template {{Wikicities:Wikipedia|Page title}}.
Image guidelines
GFDL or public domain images are strongly preferred on Wikicities. Copyright-violating images are subject to deletion. Copyright information must be added to the image description page of every uploaded image.
Licensing exceptions
Désencyclopédie is the only Wikicity currently allowed to include non-GFDL pages. This is to allow the community to adapt content from Uncyclopedia, its sister project, under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. Pages that are not available under both the GFDL and this CC license will be clearly tagged as such. See Desencyclopedie:Project:Copyrights for details on this.
Other exceptions:
- The sister projects of Wikicities may be under different licenses.
- Images and other uploaded files may be available under an alternative free license, or under fair use.
- Some users may have chosen to multi license their edits. In such cases, that user's edits will be available under the GFDL as well as other licenses.
- Some wiki communities may have chosen to multi license their whole wiki. In such cases, the content will be available under the GFDL as well as other licenses.
See also
- Designated agent
- Forums/Copyright: discuss license violations and ask copyright questions
- Copy of the licence on gnu.org
- Wikipedia's copyright FAQ
- Wikipedia article about the GFDL
- Multi-licensing: License your own edits under the GFDL plus something else
- Common mistakes: The GFDL is not the same as a Creative Commons License