[Campaigns-l] becoming concerned - what is your license?

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Fri Jul 7 20:41:25 UTC 2006


(gah, I promised early this morning that I was making my last post, but
here I go again.)

Chris Chiasson wrote:
> Where is it posted on the site? Do the people contributing even know
> what license under which they are releasing their work?

First, it is posted on every single page of the site.

Second, when you click on edit and type something, there is a clear
explanation of it directly between where you type your contribution and
where you click the button to save it.

"Please note that all contributions to Central Campaign Wikia are
considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License (see
Central_Campaign_Wikia:Copyrights for details). If you don't want your
writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't
submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it
from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED
WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!"

This is standard practice in MediaWiki software, used everywhere on the
web, as for example at Wikipedia.

--Jimbo
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