Copyrights and licensing
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Copyrights and licensing
The license that The Porsche 914 Wiki uses grants free access to our content using the copyleft concept. What this means is that the content can be copied, modified and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledge the authors of The Porsche 914 Wiki (such as a direct link back to the source article). The idea is that the Wiki articles will remain free forever and can be used by anybody as long as they follow the restrictions of the license. The license is used to ensure that freedom.
To achieve the above goals, the content contained by The Porsche 914 Wiki is copyrighted (see the Berne Convention) by the contributors and then licensed to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
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, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License"
While the text of the GFDL is the only legal binding document, what follows is The Porsche 914 Wiki’s interpretation of the GFDL regarding the rights and obligations of the users and contributors.
Rights and Obligations: If you contribute material to The Porsche 914 Wiki, you thereby license it to the public under the GFDL. Before you contribute, you must be able to grant this license. This means that you must either...
- Own the copyright to the material (i.e. you created it yourself)
- Acquired it from a source that allows licensing under GFDL (i.e. material is in the public domain or already published under GFDL).
With material that you created, you still retain the copyright and you can republish and relicense in any way that you want, however you can never retract the GFDL license for the material that you published on The Porsche 914 Wiki as that material will remain under GFDL forever.
Using material Copyrighted by others: If you contribute material that is copyrighted by others, it must be under "fair use" or via special permission from the holder under the terms of the GFDL. You must make a note of this by listing what you know about the source material such as owner and where the material was sourced from. Never infringe the copyrights of others.
Images, etc.: Copyrighted material is not limited to written text. Images, photographs, etc. are also subject to copyrights.
