Permissions statement

A permissions statement or copyright statement on your website or other resource is essential for knowledge sharing. For example, Appropedia's statement is at Appropedia:Copyrights and explains the open license that we use, and the specific terms under which

Bad for knowledge sharing

No statement: If your site or other resource doesn't include a permissions statement, then it is copyright by default.^[1]
Restrictive terms:
- All rights reserved: This makes sense for a corporation, but if you are a non-profit organization aiming to help people, why are you doing this?
- Non-commercial use: Are you worried that someone is going to steal your documentation for an appropriate technology and make money from it? 1. If they did, isn't that a good thing? and 2. With a license such as CC-BY-SA, the other party much attribute you and share alike, so it's good for you and good for the world.

Good for knowledge sharing

Using an open license and labeling it clearly with a mark to enable search engines to index it by license (see [[CC:.

Notes

↑ This assumes you are operating under the laws of a country which is a signatory to the Berne Convention^W - and it almost certainly is.

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[1] This assumes you are operating under the laws of a country which is a signatory to the Berne Convention^W - and it almost certainly is.

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