The license This agreement only covers text appearing on [[Wikinoah]] uses grants free access to our content in the same sense as [[free software]] is licensed freelynot otherwise marked with copyright or trademark information. This principle is known as '''[[copyleft]]'''. That is to say, Wikinoah content can be copied, modified Any copyright, and redistributed ''so long as'' the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Wikinoah article used (trademark or licensing agreement marked on a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement). Wikinoah articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedomspecific page supersedes this agreement.

To fulfill <center><div style="font-size:150%; font-weight:bold; padding: 0.3em;">Creative Commons Deed</div>This is a human-readable summary of the above goalsfull license below.</center>You are free:* '''to Share'''—to copy, distribute and transmit the text contained in Wikinoah is licensed work, and* '''to the public under the Remix'''—to [[GNU Free Documentation Licensew:Literary adaptation|adapt]]the workUnder the following conditions:* ''' Attribution'''—You must [[w:Attribution (GFDLcopyright)|attribute]] the work in the manner specified by the author or [[wikt:licensor|licensor]] (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work. The full text of )* '''Share Alike'''—If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license is at .With the understanding that:* '''Waiver'''—Any of the above conditions can be [[Wikinoahw:Text Waiver|waived]] if you get permission from the copyright holder.* '''Other Rights'''—In no way are any of the GNU Free Documentation Licensefollowing rights affected by the license:** your [[w:fair dealing]] or [[w:fair use]] rights;** the author's [[w:Moral rights (copyright law)|moral rights]]; and** rights other persons may have either in the work itself or in how the work is used, such as [[w:Personality rights|publicity]]or [[w:Privacy law|privacy]] rights.* '''Notice'''—For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. This text should not be changed due The best way to do that is with a link to legal reasonshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

:'''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, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.''':'''A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "[[Wikinoah:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]]".''':'''Content on Wikinoah is covered by [[Wikinoah:general disclaimer|disclaimers]].'''<!--- see Text of the GFDL, "How to use this license" for why we use this specific form of words (+discussion in Talk) --->=

The English text of the GFDL is the only legally binding document; what follows is our interpretation of the GFDL: the rights and obligations of users and contributorsCREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION IS NOT A LAW FIRM AND DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES. DISTRIBUTION OF THIS LICENSE DOES NOT CREATE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. CREATIVE COMMONS PROVIDES THIS INFORMATION ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. CREATIVE COMMONS MAKES NO WARRANTIES REGARDING THE INFORMATION PROVIDED, AND DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ITS USE.

If you want to use Wikinoah materials in your own books/articles/web sitesor other publicationsBY EXERCISING ANY RIGHTS TO THE WORK PROVIDED HERE, you can do so, but you have to follow the GFDLYOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. If you are simply duplicating the Wikinoah article, you must follow [[Wikinoah:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License#VERBATIM COPYING|section two]] of the GFDL on ''verbatim copying''TO THE EXTENT THIS LICENSE MAY BE CONSIDERED TO BE A CONTRACT, as discussed at [[Wikinoah:Verbatim copying]]THE LICENSOR GRANTS YOU THE RIGHTS CONTAINED HERE IN CONSIDERATION OF YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

If you create a derivative version by changing or adding content, this entails the following:* your materials in turn have to be licensed under GFDL,* you must acknowledge the authorship of the article (section 4B), and* you must provide access to the ==<span id="transparent copy1" of the material (section 4J)></span>1. (The "transparent copy" of a Wikinoah article is any of a number of formats available from us, including the wiki text, the html web pages, xml feed, etc.) Definitions==

You <ol type="a"><li id="1.a">"'''Adaptation'''" means a work based upon the Work, or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, such as a translation, adaptation, derivative work, arrangement of music or other alterations of a literary or artistic work, or phonogram or performance and includes cinematographic adaptations or any other form in which the Work may be able to partially fulfill recast, transformed, or adapted including in any form recognizably derived from the original, except that a work that constitutes a Collection will not be considered an Adaptation for the purpose of this License. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Work is a musical work, performance or phonogram, the synchronization of the Work in timed-relation with a moving image ("synching") will be considered an Adaptation for the latter two obligations purpose of this License.</li><li id="1.b">"'''Collection'''" means a collection of literary or artistic works, such as encyclopedias and anthologies, or performances, phonograms or broadcasts, or other works or subject matter other than works listed in Section 1(f) below, which, by providing reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creations, in which the Work is included in its entirety in unmodified form along with one or more other contributions, each constituting separate and independent works in themselves, which together are assembled into a collective whole. A work that constitutes a Collection will not be considered an Adaptation (as defined below) for the purposes of this License.</li><li id="1.c">"'''Creative Commons Compatible License'''" means a conspicuous direct link back license that is listed at http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses that has been approved by Creative Commons as being essentially equivalent to this License, including, at a minimum, because that license: (i) contains terms that have the Wikinoah article hosted on same purpose, meaning and effect as the License Elements of this websiteLicense; and, (ii) explicitly permits the relicensing of adaptations of works made available under that license under this License or a Creative Commons jurisdiction license with the same License Elements as this License. You also need </li><li id="1.d">"'''Distribute'''" means to provide access make available to a transparent copy the public the original and copies of the Work or Adaptation, as appropriate, through sale or other transfer of ownership.</li><li id="1.e">"'''License Elements'''" means the new textfollowing high-level license attributes as selected by Licensor and indicated in the title of this License: Attribution, ShareAlike. However</li><li id="1.f">"'''Licensor'''" means the individual, please note individuals, entity or entities that offer(s) the Work under the terms of this License.</li><li id="1.g">"'''Original Author'''" means, in the Wikimedia Foundation makes case of a literary or artistic work, the individual, individuals, entity or entities who created the Work or if no guarantee to retain authorship information individual or entity can be identified, the publisher; and in addition (i) in the case of a performance the actors, singers, musicians, dancers, and other persons who act, sing, deliver, declaim, play in, interpret or otherwise perform literary or artistic works or expressions of folklore; (ii) in the case of a transparent copy phonogram the producer being the person or legal entity who first fixes the sounds of a performance or other sounds; and, (iii) in the case of articlesbroadcasts, the organization that transmits the broadcast. Therefore</li><li id="1.h">"'''Work'''" means the literary and/or artistic work offered under the terms of this License including without limitation any production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression including digital form, such as a book, pamphlet and other writing; a lecture, address, you sermon or other work of the same nature; a dramatic or dramatico-musical work; a choreographic work or entertainment in dumb show; a musical composition with or without words; a cinematographic work to which are encouraged assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to cinematography; a work of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving or lithography; a photographic work to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to photography; a work of applied art; an illustration, map, plan, sketch or three-dimensional work relative to geography, topography, architecture or science; a performance; a broadcast; a phonogram; a compilation of data to the extent it is protected as a copyrightable work; or a work performed by a variety or circus performer to provide the extent it is not otherwise considered a literary or artistic work.</li><li id="1.i">"'''You'''" means an individual or entity exercising rights under this authorship information License who has not previously violated the terms of this License with respect to the Work, or who has received express permission from the Licensor to exercise rights under this License despite a previous violation.</li><li id="1.j">"'''Publicly Perform'''" means to perform public recitations of the Work and to communicate to the public those public recitations, by any means or process, including by wire or wireless means or public digital performances; to make available to the public Works in such a way that members of the public may access these Works from a place and at a transparent copy with your derived worksplace individually chosen by them; to perform the Work to the public by any means or process and the communication to the public of the performances of the Work, including by public digital performance; to broadcast and rebroadcast the Work by any means including signs, sounds or images.</li><li id="1.k">"'''Reproduce'''" means to make copies of the Work by any means including without limitation by sound or visual recordings and the right of fixation and reproducing fixations of the Work, including storage of a protected performance or phonogram in digital form or other electronic medium.</li></ol>

==<span id= Example notice ="2"></span>2. Fair Dealing Rights==Nothing in this License is intended to reduce, limit, or restrict any uses free from copyright or rights arising from limitations or exceptions that are provided for in connection with the copyright protection under copyright law or other applicable laws.

An example notice==<span id="3"></span>3. License Grant==Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for an article that uses the Wikinoah article [[Metasyntactic variable]] might read duration of the applicable copyright) license to exercise the rights in the Work as followsstated below:

: This article is licensed under the <ol type="a href"><li id="http:3.a">to Reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collections, and to Reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collections;<//wwwli><li id="3.gnub">to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work.orgFor example, a translation could be marked "The original work was translated from English to Spanish," or a modification could indicate "The original work has been modified.";</copyleftli><li id="3.c">to Distribute and Publicly Perform the Work including as incorporated in Collections; and,</fdlli><li id="3.htmld">GNU Free Documentation Licenseto Distribute and Publicly Perform Adaptations.</ali><li id="3. It uses material from e">For the avoidance of doubt: <ol type="i"> <a hrefli id="http:3.e.i">'''Non-waivable Compulsory License Schemes.''' In those jurisdictions in which the right to collect royalties through any statutory or compulsory licensing scheme cannot be waived, the Licensor reserves the exclusive right to collect such royalties for any exercise by You of the rights granted under this License;</li> <li id="3.e.ii">'''Waivable Compulsory License Schemes.''' In those jurisdictions in which the right to collect royalties through any statutory or compulsory licensing scheme can be waived, the Licensor waives the exclusive right to collect such royalties for any exercise by You of the rights granted under this License; and,</enli> <li id="3.e.wikinoahiii">'''Voluntary License Schemes.org''' The Licensor waives the right to collect royalties, whether individually or, in the event that the Licensor is a member of a collecting society that administers voluntary licensing schemes, via that society, from any exercise by You of the rights granted under this License.</wikili> </Metasyntactic_variable"ol></li>Wikinoah article "Metasyntactic variable"</aol>.

("Metasyntactic variable" The above rights may be exercised in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter devised. The above rights include the right to make such modifications as are technically necessary to exercise the Wikinoah URL must of course be substituted accordinglyrights in other media and formats.Subject to Section 8(f), all rights not expressly granted by Licensor are hereby reserved.

Alternatively you can distribute your copy of ==<span id="Metasyntactic variable4" along with a copy of the GFDL (as explained ></span>4. Restrictions==The license granted in the text) Section 3 above is expressly made subject to and list at least five (or all if fewer than five) principal authors on the title page (or top of limited by the document). The external [httpfollowing restrictions://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ Page History Stats] tool can help you identify the principal authors.

<ol type="a"><li id== Fair use materials "4.a">You may Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work only under the terms of this License. You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for, this License with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly Perform. You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that restrict the terms of this License or the ability of the recipient of the Work to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License. You may not sublicense the Work. You must keep intact all notices that refer to this License and special requirements to the disclaimer of warranties with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly Perform. When You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work, You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License. This Section 4(a) applies to the Work as incorporated in a Collection, but this does not require the Collection apart from the Work itself to be made subject to the terms of this License. If You create a Collection, upon notice from any Licensor You must, to the extent practicable, remove from the Collection any credit as required by Section 4(c), as requested. If You create an Adaptation, upon notice from any Licensor You must, to the extent practicable, remove from the Adaptation any credit as required by Section 4(c), as requested.</li><li id===All original Wikinoah text is distributed "4.b">You may Distribute or Publicly Perform an Adaptation only under the [[GNU Free Documentation terms of: (i) this License; (ii) a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License; (iii) a Creative Commons jurisdiction license (either this or a later license version) that contains the same License Elements as this License|GFDL]](e.g. Occasionally, Wikinoah articles may Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 US)); (iv) a Creative Commons Compatible License. If you license the Adaptation under one of the licenses mentioned in (iv), you must comply with the terms of that license. If you license the Adaptation under the terms of any of the licenses mentioned in (i), (ii) or (iii) (the "Applicable License"), you must comply with the terms of the Applicable License generally and the following provisions: (I) You must include imagesa copy of, soundsor the URI for, the Applicable License with every copy of each Adaptation You Distribute or Publicly Perform; (II) You may not offer or impose any terms on the Adaptation that restrict the terms of the Applicable License or the ability of the recipient of the Adaptation to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the Applicable License; (III) You must keep intact all notices that refer to the Applicable License and to the disclaimer of warranties with every copy of the Work as included in the Adaptation You Distribute or text quotes used Publicly Perform; (IV) when You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Adaptation, You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Adaptation that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Adaptation from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the Uterms of the Applicable License.SThis Section 4(b) applies to the Adaptation as incorporated in a Collection, but this does not require the Collection apart from the Adaptation itself to be made subject to the terms of the Applicable License. Copyright law </li><li id="4.c"[[Wikinoah>If You Distribute, or Publicly Perform the Work or any Adaptations or Collections, You must, unless a request has been made pursuant to Section 4(a), keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and provide, reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing:Fair use|fair use]](i) the name of the Original Author (or pseudonym, if applicable) if supplied, and/or if the Original Author and/or Licensor designate another party or parties (e.g., a sponsor institute, publishing entity, journal) for attribution ("Attribution Parties" doctrine. It is preferred ) in Licensor's copyright notice, terms of service or by other reasonable means, the name of such party or parties; (ii) the title of the Work if supplied; (iii) to the extent reasonably practicable, the URI, if any, that these Licensor specifies to be obtained under associated with the Work, unless such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing information for the most free Work; and ([[libre]]iv) license , consistent with Section 3(b), in the case of an Adaptation, a credit identifying the use of the Work in the Adaptation (such as e.g., "French translation of the GFDL Work by Original Author," or public domain"Screenplay based on original Work by Original Author") practical. In cases where no The credit required by this Section 4(c) may be implemented in any reasonable manner; provided, however, that in the case of a Adaptation or Collection, at a minimum such imagescredit will appear, if a credit for all contributing authors of the Adaptation or Collection appears, then as part of these credits and in a manner at least as prominent as the credits for the other contributing authors. For the avoidance of doubt, You may only use the credit required by this Section for the purpose of attribution in the manner set out above and, by exercising Your rights under this License, You may not implicitly or explicitly assert or imply any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by the Original Author, Licensor and/sounds are currently availableor Attribution Parties, as appropriate, then fair of You or Your use images are acceptable of the Work, without the separate, express prior written permission of the Original Author, Licensor and/or Attribution Parties.</li><li id="4.d">Except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Licensor or as may be otherwise permitted by applicable law, if You Reproduce, Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work either by itself or as part of any Adaptations or Collections, You must not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the Work which would be prejudicial to the Original Author's honor or reputation. Licensor agrees that in those jurisdictions (e.g. Japan), in which any exercise of the right granted in Section 3(b) of this License (until such time the right to make Adaptations) would be deemed to be a distortion, mutilation, modification or other derogatory action prejudicial to the Original Author's honor and reputation, the Licensor will waive or not assert, as free images become availableappropriate, this Section, to the fullest extent permitted by the applicable national law, to enable You to reasonably exercise Your right under Section 3(b) of this License (right to make Adaptations)but not otherwise. </li></ol>

''In Wikinoah'', such ==<span id="fair use5" material should be identified as from an external source (on the image description page, or history page, as appropriate)></span>5. This also leads to possible restrictions on the use, outside of Wikinoah, of such "fair use" content retrieved from Wikinoah: this "fair use" content does not fall under the GFDL license as suchRepresentations, but under the "fair use" (or similar/different) regulations in the country where the media are retrieved.Warranties and Disclaimer==

Wikinoah does use some text under licenses that are compatible with the GFDL but may require additional terms that we do not require for original Wikinoah text (such as including Invariant SectionsUNLESS OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, FrontLICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-Cover TextsIS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE WORK, or Back-Cover Texts)EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE. When wanting to contribute such texts that include Invariant Sections or Cover Texts to WikinoahSOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, see ''[[#Introducing invariant sections or cover texts in Wikinoah|Introducing invariant sections or cover texts in Wikinoah]]'' belowSO SUCH EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

== Image guidelines <span id="6"></span>6. Limitation on Liability==EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Images and photographs, like written works, are subject to [[copyright]]. Someone owns them unless they have been explicitly placed in the [[Wikinoah:public domain|public domain]]. Images on the internet need to be licensed directly from the copyright holder or someone able to license on their behalf. In some cases, [[fair use]] guidelines may allow a photograph to be used.==<span id= Tagging ="7"></span>7. Termination==

Image description pages can be tagged with <ol type="a"><li id="7.a special tag to indicate ">This License and the legal status rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the imagesterms of this License. Individuals or entities who have received Adaptations or Collections from You under this License, however, as described at [[Wikinoah:Image copyright tags]]will not have their licenses terminated provided such individuals or entities remain in full compliance with those licenses. Sections 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 will survive any termination of this License.</li><li id="7. It b">Subject to the above terms and conditions, the license granted here is currently unclear what should happen perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright in cases where the same image Work). Notwithstanding the above, Licensor reserves the right to release the Work under different license terms or to stop distributing the Work at any time; provided, however that any such election will not serve to withdraw this License (or any other license that has been uploaded more than once with different respective copyright statements, or is required to be, granted under the terms of this License), and this License will continue in full force and effect unless terminated as stated above.</li></ol>

==<span id= U"8"></span>8.S. government photographs =Miscellaneous==

Works produced by civilian <ol type="a"><li id="8.a">Each time You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work or a Collection, the Licensor offers to the recipient a license to the Work on the same terms and conditions as the license granted to You under this License.</li><li id="8.b">Each time You Distribute or Publicly Perform an Adaptation, Licensor offers to the recipient a license to the original Work on the same terms and military employees conditions as the license granted to You under this License.</li><li id="8.c">If any provision of this License is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, it shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the [[United States]] federal government in remainder of the scope terms of their employment are public domain this License, and without further action by statute. However, note that, despite popular misconceptionthe parties to this agreement, such provision shall be reformed to the Uminimum extent necessary to make such provision valid and enforceable.S</li><li id="8. Federal Government can own copyrights that are assigned d">No term or provision of this License shall be deemed waived and no breach consented to it unless such waiver or consent shall be in writing and signed by others (for example, works created by contractors)the party to be charged with such waiver or consent. Be careful, however: not all images on </li><li id="8.mil and e">This License constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Work licensed here.gov websites There are public domain. Among other reasonsno understandings, agreements or representations with respect to the site may Work not specified here. Licensor shall not be using commercial [[stock photography]] owned bound by othersany additional provisions that may appear in any communication from You. It This License may not be useful to check modified without the privacy and security notice mutual written agreement of the websiteLicensor and You.</li><li id="8.f">The rights granted under, but only with an email to and the webmaster can you be confident that an image is subject matter referenced, in this License were drafted utilizing the public domain. It should also be noted that governments outside terminology of the Berne Convention for the U.S. often do claim copyright over works produced by their employees Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (for exampleas amended on September 28, 1979), the Rome Convention of 1961, [[Crown the WIPO Copyright]] in Treaty of 1996, the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty of 1996 and the [[United Kingdom]]Universal Copyright Convention (as revised on July 24, 1971). Also, most state These rights and local governments subject matter take effect in the relevant jurisdiction in which the United States do not place their work into License terms are sought to be enforced according to the corresponding provisions of the public domain and do implementation of those treaty provisions in fact own the applicable national law. If the standard suite of rights granted under applicable copyright law includes additional rights not granted under this License, such additional rights are deemed to their work. Please be careful included in the License; this License is not intended to check ownership information before copyingrestrict the license of any rights under applicable law.</li></ol>

=== UK Crown Copyright ===The UK [[Office of Public Sector Information]], formerly [[HMSO]], has told us:: ''[[Crown copyright]] protection in published material lasts for fifty years from the end of the year in which the material was first published. Therefore [for example] material published [fifty-one years ago], and any Crown copyright material published before that date, would now be out of copyright, and may be freely reproduced throughout the world.'' [http:<h3>Creative Commons Notice<//mail.wikinoah.org/pipermail/wikinoah-l/2005-May/039688.html]h3>

== Contributors' Creative Commons is not a party to this License, and makes no warranty whatsoever in connection with the Work. Creative Commons will not be liable to You or any party on any legal theory for any damages whatsoever, including without limitation any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising in connection to this license. Notwithstanding the foregoing two (2) sentences, if Creative Commons has expressly identified itself as the Licensor hereunder, it shall have all rights and obligations ==of Licensor.

If you contribute material to Wikinoah, you thereby license it Except for the limited purpose of indicating to the publicthat the Work is licensed under the GFDL (with no invariant sections, front-cover textsCCPL, Creative Commons does not authorize the use by either party of the trademark "Creative Commons" or any related trademark or back-covertexts)logo of Creative Commons without the prior written consent of Creative Commons.In order to contribute, you therefore must Any permitted use will be in a position to grant thislicense, which means that either* you own the copyright to the material, for instance because you produced it yourselfcompliance with Creative Commons' then-current trademark usage guidelines, as may be published on its website or* you acquired the material otherwise made available upon request from a source that allows time to time. For the licensing under GFDLavoidance of doubt, for instance because this trademark restriction does not form part of the material is in the [[public domain]] or is itself published under GFDLLicense.

In the first case, you retain copyright to your materials. You can later republish and relicense them in any way you like. However, you can never retract the GFDL license for the versions you placed here: that material will remain under GFDL forever. In the second case, if you incorporate external GFDL materials, as a requirement of the GFDL, you need toacknowledge the authorship and provide a link back to the network location of the original copy. ===Introducing invariant sections or cover texts in Wikinoah===Under Wikinoah's current copyright conditions, and with the current facilities of the MediaWiki software, it is only possible to include in Wikinoah external GFDL materials that contain invariant sections or cover texts, if all of the following apply,# You are the copyright holder of these external GFDL materials (or: you have the explicit, i.e. written, permission of the copyright holder to do what follows);# The length and nature of these invariant sections and cover texts does not exceed what can Creative Commons may be placed in an [[wikinoahcontacted at http:edit summary|edit summary]];# You are satisfied that these invariant sections and cover texts are not listed elsewhere than in the "page history" of the page where these external materials are placed;# You are satisfied that further copies of Wikinoah content are distributed under the standard GFDL application of "with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts" (in other words, for the copies derived from wikinoah, you agree that these parts of the text contributed by you will no longer be considered as "invariant sections" or "cover texts" in the GFDL sense);# The original invariant sections and/or cover texts are contained in the edit summary of the edit with which you introduce the thus GFDLed materials in wikinoah (so, that if "permanent deletion" would be applied to that edit, both the thus GFDLed material and its invariant sections and cover texts are jointly deleted)/creativecommons.Seen the stringent conditions above, it is very desirable to replace GFDL texts with invariant sections (or with cover texts) by original content without invariant sections (or cover texts) whenever possible. === Using copyrighted work from others === If you use part of a copyrighted work under "[[Wikinoah:fair use|fair use]]", or if you obtain special permission to use a copyrighted work from the copyright holder under the terms of our license, you must make a note of that fact (along with names and dates). It is our goal to be able to freely redistribute as much of Wikinoah's material as possible, so original images and sound files licensed under the GFDL or in the [[public domain]] are greatly preferred to copyrighted media files used under fair use. See [[Wikinoah:Boilerplate request for permission]] for a form letter asking a copyright holder to grant us a license to use their work under terms of the GFDL.  Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others.This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt the project.If in doubt, write it yourself. Note that copyright law governs the ''creative expression'' of ideas, not the ideas or information themselves. Therefore, it is legal to read an encyclonoah article or other work, reformulate the concepts in your own words, and submit it to Wikinoah. However, it would still be unethical (but not illegal) to do so without citing the original as a reference. See [[plagiarism]] and [[fair use]] for discussions of how much reformulation is necessary in a general context. === Linking to copyrighted works === Linking to copyrighted works is usually not a problem, as long as you have made a reasonable effort to determine that the page in question is not violating ''someone else's'' copyright. If it is, please do ''not'' link to the page. Whether such a link is contributory infringement is currently being debated in the courts,{{fact}} but in any case, linking to a site that illegally distributes someone else's work sheds a bad light on us. If the site in question is making fair use of the material, linking is OK. === If you find a copyright infringement === It is not the job of rank-and-file Wikinoahns to police content for possible copyright infringement, but if you suspect one, you should at the very least bring up the issue on that page's talk page. Others can then examine the situation and take action if needed. The most helpful piece of information you can provide is a URL or other reference to what you believe may be the source of the text. Some cases will be false alarms. For example, if the contributor was in fact the author of the text that is published elsewhere under different terms, that does not affect their right to post it here under the GFDL. Also, sometimes you will find text elsewhere on the Web that was copied from Wikinoah. In both of these cases, it is a good idea to make a note in the talk page to discourage such false alarms in the future. If some of the content of a page really is an infringement, then the infringing content should be removed, and a note to that effect should be made on the talk page, along with the original source. If the author's permission is obtained later, the text can be restored. If ''all'' of the content of a page is a suspected copyright infringement, then the page should be listed on [[Wikinoah:Copyright problems]] and the content of the page replaced by the standard notice which you can find there. If, after a week, the page still appears to be a copyright infringement, then it may be deleted following the procedures on the votes page. In extreme cases of contributors continuing to post copyrighted material after appropriate warnings, such users may be blocked from editing to protect the project. Quoted material, properly attributed to the original author and used under "fair use", retain the copyright of the original author. ==If you are the owner of Wikinoah-hosted content being used without your permission==If you are the owner of content that is being used on Wikinoah without your permission, then you may request the page be immediately removed from Wikinoah; see [[Wikinoah:Request for immediate removal of copyright violation|Request for immediate removal of copyright violation]]. You can also contact our [[Wikinoah:Designated agent|Designated agent]] to have it permanently removed, but it may take up to a week for the page to be deleted that way (you may also blank the page but the text will still be in the page history). Either way, we will, of course, need some evidence to support your claim of ownershiporg/.