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Appropedia:Requesting permission

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[edit] Example

This is an example that can be used for contacting copyright holders or (for works without explicit copyrights) authors. Minor adjustments may be made, but the key elements regarding requesting permission, mentioning and describing the GFDL and directing to the text, and requesting explicit permission for specific content are all required.

Dear [Copyright holder / Author],

I am a member of the community at Appropedia, which operates a wiki website. (You can visit us at: http://www.appropedia.org.) I recently became aware of some excellent content of yours that would be a great fit at Appropedia.

We would like to republish, in wiki format at Appropedia and under GNU Free Documentation License (described below), the following pieces of your content:

[List of content items, by title, or by URL, as applicable]

Appropedia publishes content under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The text of the license is available at this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License

Before you grant permission, please read the GFDL carefully. Note that the GFDL provides for the following: 

 1. The text or image may be freely redistributed and used.
 2. It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely redistributed and used.
 3. Any redistribution must include the full text of the GFDL itself.
 4. In all cases, the GFDL requires proper attribution of the author(s).
 5. The GFDL allows commercial re-uses provided such re-use is also under the GFDL.

Do you, as the copyright holder, acknowledge that you have read and understand the GNU Free Documentation License, and give Appropedia permission to republish the above works at the Appropedia website under that License?


Thank you in advance for your support.

[edit] See also

Here is the important part: Text in Appropedia articles must be licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. When asking for permission, you should explain that this means that 

  1. The text or image may be freely redistributed and used.
  2. It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely redistributed and used.
  3. Any redistribution must include the full text of the GFDL itself.
  4. In all cases, the GFDL requires proper attribution of the author(s).
  5. The GFDL allows commercial re-uses provided such re-use is also under the GFDL.

You may also choose to explain that the author does not give up any of his or her rights to use the text: he or she is still free to publish the text elsewhere or to license the same text to other parties under any other license. You may also want to mention that the requirement to include the full text of the GFDL with any redistribution makes stand-alone commercial reuse of the item unlikely in practice.

[edit] Interwiki links

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