Wikimedia Foundation, who kindly hosts MediaWiki.org, takes copyright law very seriously. File description pages are tagged with the license and the source of the file. This makes it as easy as possible for readers, Wikimedians, and creators of derivative works to know what they can and can't do with the files on this wiki.
If you are the creator of a file, you can choose any acceptable free license. You can multi-license your file under different licenses, if you prefer. The license must not prevent commercial reuse or derivative works.
Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike - {{cc-by-sa-3.0|Attribution details}} - This is one of several CC licenses. This version permits free use, including commercial use; requires that you be attributed as the creator; and requires that any derivative creator or redistributor of your work use the same license. The desired attribution text should be included as a parameter in the template.
Creative Commons: Attribution - {{cc-by-3.0|Attribution details}} - Similar to the above, but does not require that derivative works use the same license.
Free Art license - {{FAL}} - A copyleft license for artwork; modification and commercial use are allowed, provided derivative works carry the same license.
Public domain - {{PD-self}} - The creator permanently relinquishes all rights to the work.
For screen shots of the MediaWiki software the following tag may be used: {{MW-screenshot|content=CONTENT|skin=SKIN|free=FREE_TEMPLATE}}
This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 4.0 International license. Attribution: Attribution detailsCC-BY-4.0Creative Commons Attribution 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Copyleft: This work of art is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it according to terms of the Free Art License. You will find a specimen of this license on the Copyleft Attitude site as well as on other sites.FALFree Art Licensefalsetruehttp://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
This screenshot is of a program that has been released under a free software license. As a derivative work of that program, this screenshot falls under the same license.
If the screenshot shows any work that is not a direct result of the program code itself, such as a text or graphics that are not part of the program, the license for that work must be indicated separately.
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, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
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Official logos of the Wikimedia Foundation, if contained in this screenshot are copyrighted and licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
GPLGNU General Public Licensehttps://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-3.0.htmltruetrue
This file has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. This applies worldwide.PDPublic Domain
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This is a screenshot of a web page of a Wikimedia Foundation project. Text of Wikimedia projects (except for Wikinews[1] and parts of Wikidata[2]) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 license and may additionally be licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (Version 1.2, 1.3, 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), and are subject to terms of use. The mediawiki software itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Note on licenses: Please note that the GPL is for software and its derivatives and the GFDL is for text documentations or other forms of text and their derivatives. This means that the interface design of Wikipedia and all other portions of the MediaWiki software are licensed under the GPL, but the actual contents of Wikipedia are licensed under the GFDL.
As such, portions of this screenshot may be licensed under two separate licenses. The GPL and GFDL are not the same license; they are only connected through the Free Software Foundation, the creator of the licenses.
ScreenshotThis is a screenshot of a Wikimedia Foundation project, contents are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL Licenses, and the MediaWiki software is licensed under GPL License.//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:File_copyright_tags
