Copyright

Revision as of 06:44, 6 March 2009 by Raffi (talk | contribs) (further clarification/explanation)

This entire site is Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Raffi Kojian, unless otherwise specified on the article page, photo page or here. Articles are being systematically rewritten to incorporate multiple sources of information.

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 if you need an article about a plant, you can get it at wikipedia.org. They are being completely rewritten from a gardeners point of view, and incorporating many new sources of information. Those articles which come from Wikipedia unaltered can be spotted by looking at the history of the file, which will only have edits from user envoy.

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 noticeable1 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.



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