Difference between revisions of "Copyright"
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| − | + | The copyrights of material on Plants.am<sup>1</sup> (the site) are copyright Plants.am, the authors, the authors' employers or the current copyright holder. The site does not claim ownership of the content you contribute to Plants.am. Works are contributed with permission. By submitting content to Plants.am for inclusion in its site, you grant Plants.am the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the content for the purpose of displaying and distributing such content through Plants.am's systems and projects. | |
==GNU FDL and Wikipedia== | ==GNU FDL and Wikipedia== | ||
| − | Many of the articles are currently unedited versions of [http://www.wikipedia.org wikipedia] articles. Those articles are under a different license and are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License free to reuse] with proper licensing information. Those articles do not have tags - but | + | Many of the articles are currently unedited versions of [http://www.wikipedia.org wikipedia] articles. Those articles are under a different license and are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License free to reuse] with proper licensing information. Those articles do not have tags - but can be spotted by looking at the history of the file, which will ''only have edits from user envoy''. Their most recent version will be found on Wikipedia. Those articles remaining on Plants.am are being completely rewritten from a gardeners point of view, and incorporating many new sources of information. |
==Permission to use materials== | ==Permission to use materials== | ||
| − | All the materials on the site are available for you to browse and use for yourself, for free. To use the materials elsewhere, for example on a website, either non-profit, educational, commercial, etc, is almost never a problem, but please nevertheless check with [[User_talk:Raffi]] for permission. '''You may use up to 25 articles''' from Plants.am on your website before asking permission, ''so long as you agree to display a noticeable<sup> | + | All the materials on the site are available for you to browse and use for yourself, for free. To use the materials elsewhere, for example on a website, either non-profit, educational, commercial, etc, is almost never a problem, but please nevertheless check with [[User_talk:Raffi]] for permission. '''You may use up to 25 articles''' from Plants.am on your website before asking permission, ''so long as you agree to display a noticeable<sup>2</sup> link back'' to the page on Plants.am and agree to remove the materials immediately if requested to do so. For most purposes, permission to use any number of pages you need will be granted, but prior permission must be requested for over 25 articles, or else usage will be a violation of copyright. |
==No Warranty== | ==No Warranty== | ||
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| + | <sup>1</sup>Plants.am is wholly owned by [[Raffi Kojian]]<br> | ||
<sup>1</sup>noticeable here means the text of the link back should be at least the same size as the text of the article, not super-tiny, or an invisible color | <sup>1</sup>noticeable here means the text of the link back should be at least the same size as the text of the article, not super-tiny, or an invisible color | ||
Revision as of 22:44, 11 May 2009
The copyrights of material on Plants.am1 (the site) are copyright Plants.am, the authors, the authors' employers or the current copyright holder. The site does not claim ownership of the content you contribute to Plants.am. Works are contributed with permission. By submitting content to Plants.am for inclusion in its site, you grant Plants.am the world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the content for the purpose of displaying and distributing such content through Plants.am's systems and projects.
GNU FDL and Wikipedia
Many of the articles are currently unedited versions of wikipedia articles. Those articles are under a different license and are free to reuse with proper licensing information. Those articles do not have tags - but can be spotted by looking at the history of the file, which will only have edits from user envoy. Their most recent version will be found on Wikipedia. Those articles remaining on Plants.am are being completely rewritten from a gardeners point of view, and incorporating many new sources of information.
Permission to use materials
All the materials on the site are available for you to browse and use for yourself, for free. To use the materials elsewhere, for example on a website, either non-profit, educational, commercial, etc, is almost never a problem, but please nevertheless check with User_talk:Raffi for permission. You may use up to 25 articles from Plants.am on your website before asking permission, so long as you agree to display a noticeable2 link back to the page on Plants.am and agree to remove the materials immediately if requested to do so. For most purposes, permission to use any number of pages you need will be granted, but prior permission must be requested for over 25 articles, or else usage will be a violation of copyright.
No Warranty
This information is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
1Plants.am is wholly owned by Raffi Kojian
1noticeable here means the text of the link back should be at least the same size as the text of the article, not super-tiny, or an invisible color
