Copyright

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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.

LIMITATION OF EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITY. The site nor Plants.am does not review any works or material submitted by third parties. The site reserves the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse or remove any works or material that are available via the site's systems. The site and Plants.am absolve themselves of all editorial responsibility over the works and material on the site.

JURISDICTION. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of Los Angeles, California. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Los Angeles, California, in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of Plants.am.


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