FAIwiki Copyrights

[Geert Stappers]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
 <snip/>
> > 
> > The wiki is at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de
> > 
> > 
> > IANAL & AFAIK there are about five versions of the Creative Commons License.
> > Some of them are very restricting. e.g. "don't modify my beautiful
> > painting". But a wiki is about allow others to modify ( improve it )
> 
> "creative commons attribution 2.5" is one of these, that one that allows
> absolute freedom apart from the original author must be mentioned. Sorry
> for not posting a link to it and to the faiwiki copyright page, here
> they go:
> 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
> 
> http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAIWiki:Copyrights

| Attribution 2.5
| 
| You are free:
| 
|     * to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
|     * to make derivative works
|     * to make commercial use of the work
| 
| Under the following conditions:
| by	
| Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the
| author or licensor.
| 
|     * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the
|     * license terms of this work.
|     * Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from
|     * the copyright holder.
| 
| Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
| 

Sounds reasonable to me.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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