EOpedia:Copyrights
This is the copyright policy for EOpedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit.
Contributors' rights and obligations
You give a non-exclusive licence to use your work on EOpedia under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence. You consent to being acknowledged in one of the following ways: through a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the article(s) you contributed to; through a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy that is freely available, complies with the licence, and gives credit to the authors in a manner comparable to the credit given on this website; or through a list of all authors. Additionally, you acknowledge that other contributors and reusers may alter, translate, adapt, or reuse your work under the same licence conditions.
In short
- You own your contributions to Wikimedia projects, but you agree to licence them under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- You are responsible for making sure that you do not infringe others’ copyrights.
- You must provide an edit summary when you make changes to a page.
- You must respect others’ copyrights.
Reusers' rights and obligations
You may reuse EOpedia content as long as you adhere to the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. It follows that you must give due credit to the creators of the original work, link to the licence, note any changes, and share your additions in accordance with the same or a similar permission to the original. Unless you have the authors' express permission, you may not use content from EOpedia in a way that suggests endorsement or affiliation with EOpedia or them. Unless you have a specific arrangement with EOpedia or its authors, you may not utilise content from EOpedia for commercial reasons.
In short
- You are free to reuse Wikimedia content that is licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0, so long as you comply with the terms of those licences.
- You must credit the authors of the content you reuse.
- If you make changes to the content you reuse, you must licence your derivative work under CC BY-SA 4.0.
