'''This page is an official policy on OrthodoxWiki. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. Please feel free to update this page as needed, but make sure that changes you make to this policy really do reflect OrthodoxWiki's perspective before you make them.'''
All material on '''OrthodoxWiki''' is by default released under a dual GDFL-Creative Commons license. For other licenses (especially for images), see [[HelpAjutor:Image licensesLicenţe imagini]].
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==Revised Default Copyright==
{{defaultcopy}}'''Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License as used by Wikipedia and/or the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License, Version 2.5 or any later version published; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers.'''
As of November 22, 2005, we are tweaking our licensing structure a little bit. Previously, the default copyright for all OrthodoxWiki materials was a Creative Commons (CC) License ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0]).
'''Note:''' Dual licensing applies '''does not''' apply to any material imported from [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] or any other content explicitly released under another licensing arrangement. '''All material imported from Wikipedia should provide a link back to the original article (preferably a version permalink) on Wikipedia.''' ("Wikipedia considers a direct link-back to a particular Wikipedia article as being in full compliance with the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), provided your derivative work is also licensed under the auspices of the GFDL" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Forking_FAQ#Can_I_fork_individual_Wikipedia_articles.3F] - see also [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Copyright]].)
Material contributed to OrthodoxWiki must either be original work by the contributor, who releases it by default under dual license arrangement noted above, or it must be released to OrthodoxWiki by explicit permission of the copyright holder, in which case it can be included under a license determined by the owner. (You can browse OrthodoxWiki's selection of [[OrthodoxWiki:TemplatesFormate#Copyright_TemplatesCopyright_Formate|Copyright TemplatesFormate]] or create your own.)
To determine if use of outside material legally qualifies as '''Fair use''' under U.S. law, consult [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Fair use|Wikipedia:Fair use]]. Generally speaking, copyrighted material may be quoted if it is part of a larger work which cites the material and makes use of it for the purposes of comment on it.
==See also==
Other pages related to our copyright policies on OrthodoxWiki include:
* [[OrthodoxWiki:TemplatesFormate]]* [[HelpAjutor:Image licensesLicenţe imagini]]* [[OrthodoxWiki:Style_ManualManual de stil#Copyrighted_MaterialMaterial cu copyright]]* [[OrthodoxWiki:Style Manual de stil (Importingimportarea)]]
==External links==